有一个标准，它是在各种标准文档(ISO, ANSI等)中指定的。

维基百科有一个很好的页面解释了各种类型和它们可以存储的最大值: 计算机科学中的整数。

然而，即使使用标准的c++编译器，您也可以使用以下代码片段相对容易地找到:

#include <iostream>
#include <limits>


int main() {
    // Change the template parameter to the various different types.
    std::cout << std::numeric_limits<int>::max() << std::endl;
}

std::numeric_limits的文档可以在Roguewave上找到。它包含大量其他命令，您可以调用这些命令来查找各种限制。这可以用于任何传递大小的任意类型，例如std::streamsize。

约翰的回答包含了最好的描述，因为那些肯定是成立的。不管你在什么平台上，有另一个很好的页面详细介绍了每种类型必须包含多少位:int类型，这是在标准中定义的。

我希望这能有所帮助!

实际上没有这样的事情。通常，std::size_t表示当前体系结构上的无符号本机整数大小。即16位、32位或64位，但并不总是如此，就像这个答案的评论中指出的那样。

至于所有其他内置类型，它实际上取决于编译器。以下是摘自最新c++标准的当前工作草案的两段摘录:

There are five standard signed integer types : signed char, short int, int, long int, and long long int. In this list, each type provides at least as much storage as those preceding it in the list. For each of the standard signed integer types, there exists a corresponding (but different) standard unsigned integer type: unsigned char, unsigned short int, unsigned int, unsigned long int, and unsigned long long int, each of which occupies the same amount of storage and has the same alignment requirements.

如果您愿意，您可以静态(编译时)断言这些基本类型的sizeof。如果假设的大小发生变化，它会提醒人们考虑移植您的代码。

如果您对纯c++解决方案感兴趣，我使用模板和仅c++标准代码在编译时根据位大小定义类型。 这使得解决方案可以跨编译器移植。

背后的想法很简单:创建一个包含类型char, int, short, long, long long(有符号和无符号版本)的列表，然后扫描列表，并使用numeric_limits模板选择具有给定大小的类型。

包括这个头，你得到8类型stdtype::int8, stdtype::int16, stdtype::int32, stdtype::int64, stdtype::uint8, stdtype::uint16, stdtype::uint32, stdtype::uint64。

如果某些类型不能被表示，它将被计算为stdtype::null_type，也在该头文件中声明。

以下代码没有保修，请仔细检查。 我也是元编程的新手，请随意编辑和更正此代码。 使用devc++进行测试(因此gcc版本在3.5左右)

#include <limits>

namespace stdtype
{
    using namespace std;


    /*
     * THIS IS THE CLASS USED TO SEMANTICALLY SPECIFY A NULL TYPE.
     * YOU CAN USE WHATEVER YOU WANT AND EVEN DRIVE A COMPILE ERROR IF IT IS 
     * DECLARED/USED.
     *
     * PLEASE NOTE that C++ std define sizeof of an empty class to be 1.
     */
    class null_type{};

    /*
     *  Template for creating lists of types
     *
     *  T is type to hold
     *  S is the next type_list<T,S> type
     *
     *  Example:
     *   Creating a list with type int and char: 
     *      typedef type_list<int, type_list<char> > test;
     *      test::value         //int
     *      test::next::value   //char
     */
    template <typename T, typename S> struct type_list
    {
        typedef T value;
        typedef S next;         

    };




    /*
     * Declaration of template struct for selecting a type from the list
     */
    template <typename list, int b, int ctl> struct select_type;


    /*
     * Find a type with specified "b" bit in list "list"
     *
     * 
     */
    template <typename list, int b> struct find_type
    {   
        private:
            //Handy name for the type at the head of the list
            typedef typename list::value cur_type;

            //Number of bits of the type at the head
            //CHANGE THIS (compile time) exp TO USE ANOTHER TYPE LEN COMPUTING
            enum {cur_type_bits = numeric_limits<cur_type>::digits};

        public:
            //Select the type at the head if b == cur_type_bits else
            //select_type call find_type with list::next
            typedef  typename select_type<list, b, cur_type_bits>::type type;
    };

    /*
     * This is the specialization for empty list, return the null_type
     * OVVERRIDE this struct to ADD CUSTOM BEHAVIOR for the TYPE NOT FOUND case
     * (ie search for type with 17 bits on common archs)
     */
    template <int b> struct find_type<null_type, b>
    {   
        typedef null_type type;

    };


    /*
     * Primary template for selecting the type at the head of the list if
     * it matches the requested bits (b == ctl)
     *
     * If b == ctl the partial specified templated is evaluated so here we have
     * b != ctl. We call find_type on the next element of the list
     */
    template <typename list, int b, int ctl> struct select_type
    {   
            typedef  typename find_type<typename list::next, b>::type type; 
    };

    /*
     * This partial specified templated is used to select top type of a list
     * it is called by find_type with the list of value (consumed at each call)
     * the bits requested (b) and the current type (top type) length in bits
     *
     * We specialice the b == ctl case
     */
    template <typename list, int b> struct select_type<list, b, b>
    {
            typedef typename list::value type;
    };


    /*
     * These are the types list, to avoid possible ambiguity (some weird archs)
     * we kept signed and unsigned separated
     */

    #define UNSIGNED_TYPES type_list<unsigned char,         \
        type_list<unsigned short,                           \
        type_list<unsigned int,                             \
        type_list<unsigned long,                            \
        type_list<unsigned long long, null_type> > > > >

    #define SIGNED_TYPES type_list<signed char,         \
        type_list<signed short,                         \
        type_list<signed int,                           \
        type_list<signed long,                          \
        type_list<signed long long, null_type> > > > >



    /*
     * These are acutally typedef used in programs.
     * 
     * Nomenclature is [u]intN where u if present means unsigned, N is the 
     * number of bits in the integer
     *
     * find_type is used simply by giving first a type_list then the number of 
     * bits to search for.
     *
     * NB. Each type in the type list must had specified the template 
     * numeric_limits as it is used to compute the type len in (binary) digit.
     */
    typedef find_type<UNSIGNED_TYPES, 8>::type  uint8;
    typedef find_type<UNSIGNED_TYPES, 16>::type uint16;
    typedef find_type<UNSIGNED_TYPES, 32>::type uint32;
    typedef find_type<UNSIGNED_TYPES, 64>::type uint64;

    typedef find_type<SIGNED_TYPES, 7>::type    int8;
    typedef find_type<SIGNED_TYPES, 15>::type   int16;
    typedef find_type<SIGNED_TYPES, 31>::type   int32;
    typedef find_type<SIGNED_TYPES, 63>::type   int64;

}

我注意到这里所有的其他答案几乎都集中在整型上，而提问者也问了浮点数。

我不认为c++标准需要它，但是现在大多数常见平台的编译器通常都遵循IEEE754标准的浮点数。该标准指定了四种类型的二进制浮点数(以及一些BCD格式，我从未见过c++编译器支持这些格式):

半精度(binary16) - 11位有效值，指数范围-14到15 单精度(binary32) - 24位有效值，指数范围-126至127 双精度(binary64) - 53位有效值，指数范围-1022到1023 四倍精度(binary128) - 113位有效值，指数范围-16382到16383

那么，这是如何映射到c++类型的呢?一般浮子采用单精度;因此，sizeof(float) = 4。然后double使用双精度(我相信这是double名称的来源)，长double可能是双精度或四倍精度(在我的系统上是四倍精度，但在32位系统上可能是双精度)。我不知道有哪个编译器能提供半精度浮点数。

总结一下，通常是这样的:

Sizeof (float) = 4 Sizeof (double) = 8 Sizeof (long double) = 8或16

你可以使用OpenGL、Qt等库提供的变量。

例如，Qt提供了qint8(保证在Qt支持的所有平台上都是8位的)、qint16、qint32、qint64、quint8、quint16、quint32、quint64等等。

正如其他人回答的那样，“标准”都将大部分细节保留为“实现定义的”，只声明类型“char”的宽度至少为“char_bis”，并且“char <= short <= int <= long <= long long”(浮点数和双精度浮点数与IEEE浮点标准基本一致，长双精度浮点数通常与双精度浮点数相同——但在更当前的实现中可能更大)。

Part of the reasons for not having very specific and exact values is because languages like C/C++ were designed to be portable to a large number of hardware platforms--Including computer systems in which the "char" word-size may be 4-bits or 7-bits, or even some value other than the "8-/16-/32-/64-bit" computers the average home computer user is exposed to. (Word-size here meaning how many bits wide the system normally operates on--Again, it's not always 8-bits as home computer users may expect.)

If you really need a object (in the sense of a series of bits representing an integral value) of a specific number of bits, most compilers have some method of specifying that; But it's generally not portable, even between compilers made by the ame company but for different platforms. Some standards and practices (especially limits.h and the like) are common enough that most compilers will have support for determining at the best-fit type for a specific range of values, but not the number of bits used. (That is, if you know you need to hold values between 0 and 127, you can determine that your compiler supports an "int8" type of 8-bits which will be large enought to hold the full range desired, but not something like an "int7" type which would be an exact match for 7-bits.)

注意:使用了许多Un*x源包”。/configure”脚本，它将探测编译器/系统的功能，并输出一个合适的Makefile和config.h。您可以检查其中一些脚本，看看它们是如何工作的，以及它们如何探测编译器/系统功能，并遵循它们的指导。