Word and LongWord

Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:46:35 +0100 (MET)

According to Andreas Bauer:
> JJvdH>     type
> JJvdH>       word  = __unsigned__ integer;
> You should call it longword.
> I had some trouble, because I declared a word like this and i wondered
> that the entries after flags had some errors :)
> Perhaps longword...

A matter of taste and self-discipline while counting bits. ;-)

I prefer "word" to stand for the "natural" unsigned integer
- which has 32 bits with GNU Pascal.  (But I also had trouble
with this being a Borland Pascal programmer for many years ... ;-)

    Peter

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