C Program to Demonstrate the Working of Keyword long

Keyword long is used for altering the size of data type. For example: the size of int is either 2 bytes or 4 bytes but, when long keyword is used, the size of long int will be either 4 bytes or 8 bytes. Also, you can use long long int. The size of long long int is generally 8 bytes. This program will demonstrate the size of keyword long for my system. It may be different in your system.

Source Code

#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
    int a;
    long int b;                /* int is optional. */
    long long int c;            /* int is optional. */
    printf("Size of int = %d bytes\n",sizeof(a));
    printf("Size of long int = %ld bytes\n",sizeof(b));
    printf("Size of long long int = %ld bytes",sizeof(c));
    return 0;
}

 
Output

Size of int = 4 bytes
Size of long int = 4 bytes
Size of long long int = 8 bytes

In this program, the sizeof operator is used for finding the size of int, long int and long long int.
Thus, int and long int for my system can hold values from -2³¹ to 2³¹-1. If I have to work on data outside this range, I have to use long long int, which can hold values from -2⁶³ to 2⁶³-1 .
Similarly, the long keyword can be used double and floats types.