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Why are C character literals ints instead of chars?

folks,

I tried to print out the size of char in C. With the following code, I got the result output as

int, 4
char, 1
char?, 4

Why is the last one not the same as the 2nd one? Thanks.

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
    int a = 2;
    char b = '2';
    printf("int, %d\n",sizeof(a));
    printf("char, %d\n",sizeof(b));
    printf("char?, %d\n",sizeof('a'));
}

Answer 1

In C, a character constant like 'a' has type int.

This is different from C++ and Java, where a character constant like 'a' has type char,