From: Otis Bricker <obricker@...>
Date: 2006-07-08T01:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Grails

"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com> wrote in
news:Aburg.133531$771.14823@edtnps89: 

>>> [?] Are the non-byte datatypes fixed-size?
>>
>> Not sure what you mean. I believe that int,long, double and the like
>> are all fixed size.
> 
>     They have a fixed range (e.g. from Long.MIN_VALUE to
>     Long.MAX_VALUE for 
> long). Their actual bit-width is implementation defined, and is
> inaccessible from within your Java program.
> 
> 

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/Concepts.doc.html#
19511

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/Overview.doc.html#
31446

Sun seems to state that the virtual machine will use fixed size 
representations(2.4.1 and 3.3). I guess you could view this as only 
defining the value range. But since the range is defined seperately in 
3.3.1, this seems and incorrect interpretation.

OB