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From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com>
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Subject: Re: How big is an int?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970523164226.7479A-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net> from Stephen Hovey at "May 23, 97 04:43:00 pm"
To: shovey@buffnet.net (Stephen Hovey)
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 14:24:23 -0700 (PDT)
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Stephen Hovey said:
>
>How big is type int on freebsd? 2 bytes? 4?  Im trying to figure out
>max/min vals and if I need to convert some software I have to longs.
>
>Thanx
>
>

Try looking in /usr/include/machine/limits.h

or try this


#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
    printf("The size of an int is %d bytes\n", sizeof(int));

    exit(0);
}        


Josef

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