从技术上讲，C标准只保证sizeof(char) == 1，其余的取决于实现。但在现代x86架构(例如Intel/AMD芯片)上，这是相当可预测的。

You've probably heard processors described as being 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, etc. This usually means that the processor uses N-bits for integers. Since pointers store memory addresses, and memory addresses are integers, this effectively tells you how many bits are going to be used for pointers. sizeof is usually measured in bytes, so code compiled for 32-bit processors will report the size of pointers to be 4 (32 bits / 8 bits per byte), and code for 64-bit processors will report the size of pointers to be 8 (64 bits / 8 bits per byte). This is where the limitation of 4GB of RAM for 32-bit processors comes from -- if each memory address corresponds to a byte, to address more memory you need integers larger than 32-bits.

除了16位/32位/64位的差异之外，还会发生更奇怪的事情。

曾经有一些机器sizeof(int *)是一个值，可能是4，但sizeof(char *)更大。自然地处理单词而不是字节的机器必须“增加”字符指针，以指定您真正想要的单词的哪一部分，以便正确地实现C/ c++标准。

现在这是非常不寻常的，因为硬件设计师已经了解了字节可寻址性的价值。

只是已经发布的列表中的另一个例外。在32位平台上，指针可以占用6字节，而不是4字节:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main() {
    char far* ptr; // note that this is a far pointer
    printf( "%d\n", sizeof( ptr));
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

如果你用Open Watcom编译这个程序并运行它，你会得到6，因为它支持的远指针由32位偏移量和16位段值组成

The size of the pointer basically depends on the architecture of the system in which it is implemented. For example the size of a pointer in 32 bit is 4 bytes (32 bit ) and 8 bytes(64 bit ) in a 64 bit machines. The bit types in a machine are nothing but memory address, that it can have. 32 bit machines can have 2^32 address space and 64 bit machines can have upto 2^64 address spaces. So a pointer (variable which points to a memory location) should be able to point to any of the memory address (2^32 for 32 bit and 2^64 for 64 bit) that a machines holds.

由于这个原因，我们看到指针的大小在32位机器中是4字节，在64位机器中是8字节。

从技术上讲，C标准只保证sizeof(char) == 1，其余的取决于实现。但在现代x86架构(例如Intel/AMD芯片)上，这是相当可预测的。

You've probably heard processors described as being 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, etc. This usually means that the processor uses N-bits for integers. Since pointers store memory addresses, and memory addresses are integers, this effectively tells you how many bits are going to be used for pointers. sizeof is usually measured in bytes, so code compiled for 32-bit processors will report the size of pointers to be 4 (32 bits / 8 bits per byte), and code for 64-bit processors will report the size of pointers to be 8 (64 bits / 8 bits per byte). This is where the limitation of 4GB of RAM for 32-bit processors comes from -- if each memory address corresponds to a byte, to address more memory you need integers larger than 32-bits.

在Win64 (Cygwin GCC 5.4)中，让我们看看下面的例子:

首先，测试下面的结构:

struct list_node{
    int a;
    list_node* prev;
    list_node* next;
};

struct test_struc{
    char a, b;
};

测试代码如下:

std::cout<<"sizeof(int):            "<<sizeof(int)<<std::endl;
std::cout<<"sizeof(int*):           "<<sizeof(int*)<<std::endl;
std::cout<<std::endl;

std::cout<<"sizeof(double):         "<<sizeof(double)<<std::endl;
std::cout<<"sizeof(double*):        "<<sizeof(double*)<<std::endl;
std::cout<<std::endl;

std::cout<<"sizeof(list_node):      "<<sizeof(list_node)<<std::endl;
std::cout<<"sizeof(list_node*):     "<<sizeof(list_node*)<<std::endl;
std::cout<<std::endl;

std::cout<<"sizeof(test_struc):     "<<sizeof(test_struc)<<std::endl;
std::cout<<"sizeof(test_struc*):    "<<sizeof(test_struc*)<<std::endl;    

输出如下:

sizeof(int):            4
sizeof(int*):           8

sizeof(double):         8
sizeof(double*):        8

sizeof(list_node):      24
sizeof(list_node*):     8

sizeof(test_struc):     2
sizeof(test_struc*):    8

你可以看到在64位中，sizeof(指针)是8。