What are Qualifiers in the C language?

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ipkiss picture ipkiss · Feb 24, 2011 · Viewed 32.8k times · Source

I am reading some text at this url:

https://cs.senecac.on.ca/~btp100/pages/content/varia_p.html

In the section 'Qualifiers', they say:

"We can qualify the int type to be sure that it contains a minimum number of bits" .... A short contains at least 16 bits: ....

I don't understand this, what does "qualify the int type" mean and why "A short contains at least 16 bits".

Can anybody elaborate on this please? Thanks all.

Answer

BIJU picture BIJU · Jul 12, 2012

Qualifier is an extra name given to either variables or functions , showing an extra quality or extra meaning for that variable or function. like Dr in Dr Arun Kumar

Qualifiers for variables are (TYPE qualifiers): signed, unsigned, long, short, long long, const, volatile, static, auto, extern, register

Qualifiers for functions are: static, extern, inline

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