Dynamic arrays, basic type names, auto

[Jussi Jumppanen]

Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:

> I get the impression that people who think 
> that "word == 2 bytes" tend to be long-time 
> Windows programmers.  Since that's, well, 
> pretty much the only place where that's true. 

As one of those long time Windows programmers, I know 
a "WORD == 2 bytes" only because that's how WORD is 
defined in the Windows SDK headers. I also know it is 
half the size of a DWORD (i.e. double word).

As to how the question of how many bytes there
are in a "word", I wouldn't have a clue ;)