size of int variable

Question

How the size of int is decided?

Is it true that the size of int will depend on the processor. For 32-bit machine, it will be 32 bits and for 16-bit it\'s 16.

Answer 1

It depends on the compiler.

For eg : Try an old turbo C compiler & it would give the size of 16 bits for an int because the word size (The size the processor could address with least effort) at the time of writing the compiler was 16.