Short int in C Programming

Short int in C is a data type in the C Programming language. Short int in C occupies 2 bytes of memory. Number Range of short int is −32,767 to +32,767.

Size of Different int Data Types

In terms of occupying memory the size of int, short int, will vary. To be more specific, int occupies four bytes of memory while short int occupies only two bytes of memory.

An interesting thing to learn is that in C programming language, short int or short reflects the same meaning.

In C programming language, sizeof() operator can be used to find the size of data type

Let us explore the size of int, short int in C by executing a C program:

Output

As, short and short int both are the same, from the output of the above program we can clearly say that size of short and short int in C is also the same ( two bytes). Also, from the output section do observe that the int data type occupies 4 bytes of memory.

For Integer, we have 8 possible types:

• int, unsigned int
• short, unsigned short
• long, unsigned long
• long long, unsigned long long

Now, Let us discuss them in detail

int, Unsigned int

Size of int data type is 4 bytes. Size of unsigned int data type is 4 bytes. The size of int may vary according to the compiler, a 32-bit compiler will give int size as 2 bytes whereas the 64-bit compiler will give 4 bytes. Let us confirm the size of int, unsigned int data type by executing a small C program:

Output

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By this point, we got a good idea about short in C. To explore and to be more knowledgable about short int and data types in C do refer our article.