title: What are Qualifiers in the C language?
body: <p>I am reading some text at this url:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://cs.senecac.on.ca/~btp100/pages/content/varia_p.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cs.senecac.on.ca/~btp100/pages/content/varia_p.html</a></p>
  
  <p>In the section 'Qualifiers', they say:</p>
  
  <p>"We can qualify the int type to be sure that it contains a minimum number of bits"
  ....
  A short contains at least 16 bits:
  ....</p>
  
  <p>I don't understand this, what does "qualify the int type" mean and why "A short contains at least 16 bits".</p>
  
  <p>Can anybody elaborate on this please?
  Thanks all.</p>