• int is a signed Integer data type

• uint is an unsigned Integer data type

Size and range of int and uint in go is platform-dependent meaning that the size and range depend whether the underlying platform is 32-bit or a 64-bit machine.

Size Table

Range Table

Know Size and Range

• bits package of golang can help know the size of an int or uint on your system. bits.UintSize is the const that stores this value. It is calculated as below

const uintSize = 32 << (^uint(0) >> 32 & 1) // 32 or 64

• unsafe.Sizeof() function can also be used to see the size of int or unit in bytes

Once the size is known, the range can be deduced based upon size. See the below code for printing size.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "math/bits"
    "unsafe"
)

func main() {
    //This is computed as 
    //const uintSize = 32 << (^uint(0) >> 32 & 1) // 32 or 64
    sizeInBits := bits.UintSize
    fmt.Printf("%d bits\n", sizeInBits)

    //Using unsafe.Sizeof() function. It will print size in bytes
    var a int
    fmt.Printf("%d bytes\n", unsafe.Sizeof(a))

    //Using unsafe.Sizeof() function. It will print size in bytes
    var b uint
    fmt.Printf("%d bytes\n", unsafe.Sizeof(b))
}

Output:

64 bits
8 bytes
8 bytes

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