From: pneyz <pneyz AT bethany DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Bytes and words
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 22:04:33 -0800
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>   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?

BYTE and WORD are not defined be default, so most coders put something
like:

  typedef unsigned char byte;
  typedef unsigned int  word;

In their code for gfx routines. However, in DJGPP, an int is 4 bytes by
default, so you should change the int to a short. byte and word are not
C identifiers, but are holdovers from asm (I think).

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