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From: "Dave Bloodgood" <dabldgd AT cox DOT net>
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Subject: Re: 16 bit integers
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Use "short"'s instead of Int ( which are really long ). They can be signed
or unsigned, and are guaranteed
to be 16 bits

Dave
"Andrey" <huli_ebtyt AT list DOT ru> wrote in message
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> And what if I want to process an array of 16-bit data loaded from a file,
> should I use?:
>
> a = *(pointer)&0x0000ffff;
> b = *(pointer)>>16;
> ...
> work with a, b
> ...
>
> I think it is not optimal...