From:	Jason Alexander <jalex AT ea DOT oac DOT uci DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Bytes and words
Date:	Sat, 07 Feb 1998 20:43:51 -0800
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  In the _Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats_, published by O'Reilly
& Associates, the discussion of the Targa format (pg.647) says that the
structure of the file header is:

typedef struct _TgaHeader
{
 BYTE IDLength;
 BYTE ColorMapType;
 BYTE ImageType;
 WORD CMapStart;
 WORD CMapLength;
 BYTE CMapDepth;
 BYTE XOffSet;
 WORD YOffSet;
 WORD Width;
 WORD Height;
 BYTE PixelDepth;
 BYTE ImageDescriptor
} TGAHEAD;

  If I try to include this in a simple program, gcc complains about the
use of semicolons in a structure and (it seems) about the use of
'BYTE'.  Is the above just meant to be a very formal looking piece of
pseudocode, or can one actually declare bytes and words (2 bytes?) in
this manner?

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