// Purpose:  A program to demonstrate the various sizes of fundamental object types
// Author:  Keith Shomper
// Date:  9/12/03

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main () {
	// The following 10 output statements print the size of the associated fundamental
	// types.  Also take note of the use of the escape sequence for 'tab'
	cout << "Integer objects:" << endl;
	cout << "	The size of a 'short' is:  " << sizeof(short) << " bytes."  << endl;
	cout << "\tThe size of an 'int' is:  " << sizeof(int) << " bytes."  << endl;
	cout << "\tThe size of a 'long' is:  " << sizeof(long) << " bytes."  << endl << endl;
	
	cout << "Float objects:" << endl;
	cout << "\tThe size of a 'float' is:  " << sizeof(float) << " bytes."  << endl;
	cout << "\tThe size of a 'double' is:  " << sizeof(double) << " bytes."  << endl;
	cout << "\tThe size of a 'long double' is:  " << sizeof(long double) << " bytes."  << 
		endl << endl;
	
	cout << "Char objects:" << endl;
	cout << "\tThe size of a 'char' is:  " << sizeof(char) << " byte.\n\n"  << endl;
	
	// This code segment shows the result of assigning an integer to a short when the
	// short is too small to hold the value
	int     x = 65537;
	short y;
	
	y = x;
	cout << "The value of x is:  " << x << endl;
	cout << "The value of y is:  " << y << endl;
	
	return 0;
}