Re: typedef [OT]

From: dandelion (dandelion_at_meadow.net)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:08:29 +0100

"Bryan Bullard" <replay@to.group.com> wrote in message
news:lWCxd.3318$iC4.2986@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com...
>
> "dandelion" <dandelion@meadow.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Merrill & Michele" <beckjensen@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:IfSdnTZiJ-8Bf1vcRVn-ow@comcast.com...
> > > typedef struct
> > > {
> > > WORD versionNumber;
> > > WORD offset;
> > > }
> > > MENUITEMTEMPLATEHEADER;
> > >
> > > This is from vol 5 of unnamed platform's programmer's reference. I
> could
> > > make this conforming by enclosing everything in a /*...*/ comment and
> > > appending the 'hail world' code. Is there an easier, and, let's say,
> more
> > > efficacious way to make this pass gcc with -ansi tag and no
complaints?
> > MPJ
> >
> >
> > typedef int WORD;
> >
> > or
> >
> > typedef unsigned int WORD;
> >
> > Personally, i think of 'words' as unsigned, but i'm open to corrections.
> >
>
> Actually, this is probably what you are looking for:
>
> typedef unsigned short WORD;

Maybe. Depends on the definition of a 'word'. On a 80x86 you are right,
on a Z80 you are wrong.