... element (8)—resulting in the number of elements in numbers
(20).
Determining the Sizes of the Fundamental Types, a Built-In Array and a Pointer
Figure 8.14 uses sizeof
to calculate the number of bytes used to store many of the standard data types. The output was produced using the default settings in Xcode 7.2 on Mac OS X. Type sizes are platform dependent. When we run this program on Windows, for example, long
is 4 bytes and and long
long
is 8 bytes, whereas on our Mac, they’re both 8 bytes.
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