正如其他人回答的那样，“标准”都将大部分细节保留为“实现定义的”，只声明类型“char”的宽度至少为“char_bis”，并且“char <= short <= int <= long <= long long”(浮点数和双精度浮点数与IEEE浮点标准基本一致，长双精度浮点数通常与双精度浮点数相同——但在更当前的实现中可能更大)。

Part of the reasons for not having very specific and exact values is because languages like C/C++ were designed to be portable to a large number of hardware platforms--Including computer systems in which the "char" word-size may be 4-bits or 7-bits, or even some value other than the "8-/16-/32-/64-bit" computers the average home computer user is exposed to. (Word-size here meaning how many bits wide the system normally operates on--Again, it's not always 8-bits as home computer users may expect.)

If you really need a object (in the sense of a series of bits representing an integral value) of a specific number of bits, most compilers have some method of specifying that; But it's generally not portable, even between compilers made by the ame company but for different platforms. Some standards and practices (especially limits.h and the like) are common enough that most compilers will have support for determining at the best-fit type for a specific range of values, but not the number of bits used. (That is, if you know you need to hold values between 0 and 127, you can determine that your compiler supports an "int8" type of 8-bits which will be large enought to hold the full range desired, but not something like an "int7" type which would be an exact match for 7-bits.)

注意:使用了许多Un*x源包”。/configure”脚本，它将探测编译器/系统的功能，并输出一个合适的Makefile和config.h。您可以检查其中一些脚本，看看它们是如何工作的，以及它们如何探测编译器/系统功能，并遵循它们的指导。

unsigned char bits = sizeof(X) << 3;

其中X是char,int,long等。会得到X的比特大小。

c++标准没有以字节为单位指定整型的大小，但它指定了它们必须能够容纳的最小范围。您可以从所需的范围推断出最小大小(以位为单位)。您可以从该值和CHAR_BIT宏的值推断出以字节为单位的最小大小，CHAR_BIT宏定义了字节中的比特数。除了最不知名的平台，其他平台都是8，而且不能小于8。

char的另一个限制是它的大小总是1字节，或CHAR_BIT位(因此得名)。这在标准中有明确的说明。

C标准是c++标准的规范参考，所以即使它没有明确地说明这些要求，c++也要求C标准所要求的最小范围(第22页)，这与MSDN上的数据类型范围相同:

signed char: -127 to 127 (note, not -128 to 127; this accommodates 1's-complement and sign-and-magnitude platforms) unsigned char: 0 to 255 "plain" char: same range as signed char or unsigned char, implementation-defined signed short: -32767 to 32767 unsigned short: 0 to 65535 signed int: -32767 to 32767 unsigned int: 0 to 65535 signed long: -2147483647 to 2147483647 unsigned long: 0 to 4294967295 signed long long: -9223372036854775807 to 9223372036854775807 unsigned long long: 0 to 18446744073709551615

c++(或C)实现可以用bytes sizeof(type)定义类型的大小为任何值，只要

表达式sizeof(type) * CHAR_BIT计算为足够高的位数，以包含所需的范围，并且 类型的顺序仍然有效(例如sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long))。

综上所述，我们可以保证:

Char，有符号Char和无符号Char至少是8位 有符号short、无符号short、有符号int和无符号int至少是16位 有符号长和无符号长至少是32位 有符号long long和无符号long long至少是64位

对于float或double类型的大小没有任何保证，除非double类型提供的精度至少与float类型相同。

实际的特定于实现的范围可以在C中的<limits.h>头文件中找到，或者在c++中的<climits>头文件中找到(或者更好的是，在<limits>头文件中找到模板化std::numeric_limits)。

例如，这是你如何找到int的最大范围:

C:

#include <limits.h>
const int min_int = INT_MIN;
const int max_int = INT_MAX;

C++:

#include <limits>
const int min_int = std::numeric_limits<int>::min();
const int max_int = std::numeric_limits<int>::max();

对于浮点数有一个标准(IEEE754):浮点数是32位，双精度数是64位。这是一种硬件标准，而不是c++标准，所以编译器理论上可以定义float和double为其他大小，但在实践中，我从未见过使用任何不同的架构。

当涉及到不同架构和不同编译器的内置类型时，只需在你的架构上用编译器运行以下代码，看看它输出了什么。下面是我的Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) 64位g++4.7.3输出。还请注意下面的回答，这就是为什么输出是这样排序的:

有五种标准的有符号整型:有符号char、short int、int、long int和long long int。在此列表中，每种类型提供的存储空间至少与列表中前面的类型相同。”

#include <iostream>

int main ( int argc, char * argv[] )
{
  std::cout<< "size of char: " << sizeof (char) << std::endl;
  std::cout<< "size of short: " << sizeof (short) << std::endl;
  std::cout<< "size of int: " << sizeof (int) << std::endl;
  std::cout<< "size of long: " << sizeof (long) << std::endl;
  std::cout<< "size of long long: " << sizeof (long long) << std::endl;

  std::cout<< "size of float: " << sizeof (float) << std::endl;
  std::cout<< "size of double: " << sizeof (double) << std::endl;

  std::cout<< "size of pointer: " << sizeof (int *) << std::endl;
}


size of char: 1
size of short: 2
size of int: 4
size of long: 8
size of long long: 8
size of float: 4
size of double: 8
size of pointer: 8

我们可以为类型定义同义词，这样我们就可以创建自己的“标准”。

在sizeof(int) == 4的机器上，我们可以定义:

typedef int int32;

int32 i;
int32 j;
...

所以当我们把代码转移到另一台机器上，当long int的大小是4时，我们可以重新定义int的一次出现。

typedef long int int32;

int32 i;
int32 j;
...