What is the difference between short int and int?

jbode

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• Feb 11th, 2012

The general idea is that short "always" represents a 16-bit integer, whereas int represents whatever the native word size is for that particular architecture (16- or 32-bit). "Always" is in scare quo...

sumit

• Feb 6th, 2012

Sorry to say that actually in most of C compiler short int is also of 16 bit and they are equivalent to each other.

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