Re: unsigned type

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Georg Bauhaus" <rm.tsoh.plus-bug.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> wrote in 
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> In fact, for Janus/Ada, where Integer is a 16bit type,
> the announcement states, "Support for full 16 and 32-bit
> unsigned types and their operations is included"...

It's interesting that the primary reason that we didn't change type Integer 
from 16-bit to 32-bit when we moved the compiler to the 386 was because we 
had (and our customers had) too much old code that failed to follow the 
advice to avoid using the predefined types. And a lot of that code assumed a 
16-bit representation.

Moral of the story: if you care about portability, limit as much as possible 
the use of the numeric types defined in Standard.

                                               Randy.