According to Orlando Llanes:

[...] On certain computers, like the Macintosh I believe, a Byte is the size of a PC Word.

You mean: 16 bits? One "Byte"? At least this is against all definitions I ever saw in textbooks.

I think that there should be a compiler directive to generate code, [...]

It would not be difficult to implement a compiler switch (*$16-bit *) (or a command-line option `--16-bit') to make `Integer' and `Word' 16 bits etc., but I am not so sure that this is a good idea since GPC is a true 32-bit compiler. If we want to look out for a different "natural" data size for GPC, it should not be 16 bits, but 64 bits!

Peter

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