出于完整性和历史兴趣，在64位世界中，对于长类型和长类型的大小有不同的平台约定，分别命名为LLP64和LP64，主要在unix类型系统和Windows之间。一个名为ILP64的旧标准也使int = 64位宽。

微软保留了LLP64，其中longlong = 64位宽，但long保留为32位宽，以便于移植。

Type           ILP64   LP64   LLP64
char              8      8       8
short            16     16      16
int              64     32      32
long             64     64      32
long long        64     64      64
pointer          64     64      64

来源:https://stackoverflow.com/a/384672/48026

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。

指针只是一个地址的容器。在32位计算机上，您的地址范围是32位，因此指针总是4字节。在64位机器上，如果你的地址范围是64位，一个指针将是8字节。

在windows 32位机器上的Turbo C编译器中，指针和int的大小为2字节。

所以指针的大小是编译器特定的。但一般大多数编译器实现为支持32位4字节指针变量和64位8字节指针变量)。

所以指针的大小在所有机器上都是不一样的。