Word types..._(re)

Sun, 22 Jun 1997 04:13:25 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Frank Heckenbach:
> 
> And something I just noticed concerning "Word" (this is addressed more
> to Peter ;-) :
> 
> A "machine word" in the sense of assembly language actually describes
> the *size* of data and not whether it's signed or unsigned, doesn't it?
> (Data in asm are neither signed nor unsigned per se, it depends on which
> operations are used on them.) So from the original meaning (in PC real
> mode) "Word = 16 bits", Borland made "Word = 16 bits unsigned", and now
> you seem to be making "Word = unsigned" out of it...

Now you have got me!  (-:

Okay, so GPC will have `FooInt' for signed, `FooCard' for unsigned integer
types, and `FooWord' for types where we don't care about signedness (and
which are in fact unsigned).

These are many Integer types for GPC - much more than in BP.  So let's hope
that this will lead to clear programming, not to confusion ...

    Peter

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