Valid type indentifiers and their combinations

[Nubcake95]

I hope I got that title right. I'm new to C++ and I've started reading the tutorials for a few weeks. I'm using MSVS2010 Ultimate and I was wondering how do you know what combinations of type identifiers (is that how I say it?) are valid? Also how do you determine how one affects another (their size in bytes) i.e a regular int is 4 bytes long but a short int is 2 bytes.

Why doesn't a short short int exist? I asked over at stackoverflow but they were a bit harsh on me and vaguely said that.

When I output the size of a long double its the same as the size of a double on my machine. Does that mean that a long double for me is in effect the same as a double? Or does that change on different platforms.

Thanks
Nubcake

[crimsonzero2]

I would say a short short int would be nothing more than a char (1 byte). I don't know much about the whole long double thing though

[Aceix]

No, a short(2 bytes)+short(2 bytes) int=an int(4 bytes) so there is no need for that to exist.

When I output the size of a long double its the same as the size of a double on my machine. Does that mean that a long double for me is in effect the same as a double? Or does that change on different platforms.

Generally, a long double=double as long int=int. But a long long double is different.
Also, the size(bytes) of these data types vary accross different platforms, but types like bool(boolean) are constant.

NB: these are not called identifiers, but ragher, data types. The names given to variables, function,etc...are rather the IDs.

Aceix.

[Peter87]

Even if the size of two types is the same doesn't mean they are the same type.

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typedef long T1; typedef long long T2; std::cout << std::boolalpha; std::cout << (sizeof(T1) == sizeof(T2)) << std::endl; std::cout << std::is_same<T1, T2>::value << std::endl;

true false