Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From:	fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us (Fred Smith)
Subject:	Re: How to make DJGPP treat an int as 16-bit in size.
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Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 1998 10:42:35 GMT
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Goh Yong Kwang (s6606555 AT mercury DOT np DOT ac DOT sg) wrote:

: I have some binary data files that are generated by a 16-bit DOS program
: which treat an int as 2 bytes.

: Now I want to use DJGPP to write a program to read them but DJGPP thinks
: that an int should be 4 bytes (32-bits) huge.

: The difference in size of int will cause the program to read the data 
: files incorrectly. Is there any easy way to make DJGPP treat int as 2 
: bytes?

No.

But you could write the code that reads it to use type 'short' instead,
then once you've got it into the short assign it to an int.

Fred
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