Why are C++ int and long types both 4 bytes?

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The only things guaranteed about integer types are:

  1. sizeof(char) == 1
  2. sizeof(char) <= sizeof(short)
  3. sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int)
  4. sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long)
  5. sizeof(long) <= sizeof(long long)
  6. sizeof(char) * CHAR_BIT >= 8
  7. sizeof(short) * CHAR_BIT >= 16
  8. sizeof(int) * CHAR_BIT >= 16
  9. sizeof(long) * CHAR_BIT >= 32
  10. sizeof(long long) * CHAR_BIT >= 64

The other things are implementation defined. Thanks to (4), both long and int can have the same size, but it must be at least 32 bits (thanks to (9)).

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