I want to know how to announce int to make sure it’s 4 bytes or short in 2 bytes no matter on what platform. Does C99 have rules about this?
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I want to know how to announce int to make sure it’s 4 bytes or short in 2 bytes no matter on what platform. Does C99 have rules about this?
C99 doesn’t say much about this, but you can check whether
sizeof(int) == 4, or you can use fixed size types like uint32_t (32 bits unsigned integer). They are defined instdint.h