Uses of "short" ?

D.BECK dwb at houxh.UUCP
Fri Sep 6 01:48:45 AEST 1985


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What are the reasons for using the type short in C ?  On
machines that have a different size for "int" and "short"
the reason seems obvious, space.  However, I would appreciate any thoughts
on there usefulness there also.  Specifically, I am interested
in its use on machines where sizeof (int) = sizeof (short).

Thx
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