This is a quick and dirty little program I use to determine how a machine and its operating system handle integer types. It's really nice when you are working with embedded systems. If you appreciate what I've done by making this a public domain script, then please contribute to one of the awesome open source projects on the internet or contribu…

gistfile1.txt

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void main(void){

  printf("word_sizes.c\n");
	printf("(c) 2013 Sam Caldwell.  Public Domain.\n\n");
	printf("This is a quick and dirty little program I use to determine how a machine and its operating system handle integer types.\n\n");
	printf("It's really nice when you are working with embedded systems.  If you appreciate what I've done by making this a public domain script, ");
	printf("then please contribute to one of the awesome open source projects on the internet or contribute your own code to the community and ");
	printf("pay it forward.\n\n\n");

	unsigned int c=sizeof(char)*8;
	unsigned int word=sizeof(unsigned short int)*8;
	unsigned int dword=sizeof(unsigned int)*8;
	unsigned int qword=sizeof(unsigned long long)*8;
	printf("-------------------------------------\n");
	printf("char:    %d bits (char) \n",c);
	printf("word:    %d bits (unsigned short int) \n",word);
	printf("dword:  %d bits (unsigned int)\n",dword);
	printf("qword:  %d bits (unsigned long long)\n",qword);
	printf("-------------------------------------\n");
	
}