char
is unsigned, short
is signed.
So while they are both 2-byte long, they use the sixteenth bit for different purposes.
The range of the char
type is 0 to 2^16 – 1 (0 to 65535).
The short
range is -2^15 to 2^15 – 1 (−32,768 to 32,767).
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