c语言类型探索：unsigned long-CSDN博客

本文讲述了作者在进行MIB工作时，对C语言中unsigned long类型的位宽产生疑问，通过测试和查阅规范发现，在其工作平台上unsigned long和unsigned long long都是8字节。通过man limits.h进一步确认了这一情况，并引发了对64位编程模型的思考。

c语言类型探索：unsigned long

0x00 缘起

目前在做mib相关的工作，oid节点的类型是counter64，支持私有mib的类型使用的是unsigned long，在考虑是不是够用，组内给出的结论是我们的平台上unsigned long和unsigned long long是相同位宽，即都为8字节。感觉自己基本功不扎实，故才有了这次探索

0x01 测试

事实胜于雄辩，我还是在设备上做下测试吧。结果显示的却是如此，unsigned long和unsigned long long是相同位宽，即都为8字节。

printf("unsigned long size = %ld\n", sizeof(unsigned long);
printf("unsigned long size = %ld\n", sizeof(unsigned long long);

0x02 查看规范

§5.2.4.2.1节给出了相关范围说明。

5.2.4.2.1 Sizes of integer types <limits.h>
The values given below shall be replaced by constant expressions suitable for use in #if preprocessing directives. Moreover, except for CHAR_BIT and MB_LEN_MAX, the
following shall be replaced by expressions that have the same type as would an
expression that is an object of the corresponding type converted according to the integer promoti