short int in c programming langauge

Data types in c language: short integer


Size
of short is two byte in the 16 bit compilers like turbo c++, Borland c++ as
well as 32 bit compilers like Linux gcc compiler. In Turbo c compiler size of
both short int and int is two byte. Hence there is not so importance of short
int Turbo c compiler but in Linux gcc compiler size of short int is two byte
while size of int is four byte. Since