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This is a type modifier and is used to modify int. As you know int can be of 2 or 4 bytes depending upon the machine. To make the code portable you cannot assume a size to vary from machine to machine. Short int is always of 2 bytes.

Code -

void function (void)
{
short int a = 10;
short int b;
b = scanf ("%d", &b);
printf ("%d %d",a, b);
}

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