signed char

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Name signed char
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signed char is the smallest signed integer type in C++, it often gets typedef-ed as "byte" (alternatively people use unsigned char for that reason) because it uses one byte of memory (depending upon what architecture defines it as, but no less than 8 bits). The range of values that can definitely be stored in this type is -128 – 127.

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 value
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -128
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 127
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Other C++ datatypes of the same size

Other C++ data types storing signed integers

  • short no less than 16 bits, no less than char
  • int no less than 16 bits, no less than short
  • long no less than 32 bits, no less than int
  • long long no less than 64 bits, no less than long
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