memory « byte « C Data Type Q&A

1. On a 32bit machine, every memory location is capable of holding 1 byte of data?    stackoverflow.com

for example int = x; because int is 4 bytes they would take up 4 memory locations x x x x

2. In the memory why there are only 2 bytes for int?    bytes.com

3. Turning 4 bytes in memory into a long integer?    forums.devshed.com

I have these four bytes in memory: be 08 00 00. I'm trying to make that 2238, but I'm getting -66 or -1 depending on what I use. I have an intel processor, so I'm running a little endian system, and when I read the bytes they are in little endian order. Here is the funciton I wrote: long int read_4bytes(char ...