Programatically Finding Integer Size

[Paul]

Hi,

> I'm learning C++. Can someone tell me the accepted way to 
> programatically determine the size of integers on a given system using C++?

cout << sizeof(T) << endl;

should do the trick. T is a generic term for type - you can replace it
with int, char, short etc etc etc (though it is pointless to use char as
it is *always* 1). Remember though, the sizeof value does not say the
number of bits there are in that size. I have seen upto 15 bits in a
byte before now.

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TTFN

Paul

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