Why not just make it 16 bits on the Intel platform? On certain computers, like the Macintosh I believe, a Byte is the size of a PC Word.

behaviour. In this case I would appreciate suggestions how to rename all GPC Integer types above (which I wouldn't like to do because I find the above quite consistent).

When I was playing with GPC doing the Port inline assembly stuff, I delcared the types as follows:

... TYPE ShortInt = __byte__ Integer; { 8 bits } Int = __short__ Integer; { 16 bits } LongInt = __long__ Integer; { 32 bits }

Byte = __unsigned__ ShortInt; { 8 bits } Word = __unsigned__ Int; { 16 bits } DWord = __unsigned__ LongInt; { 32 bits } ...

Or soemthing to that effect. Altho I'd prefer to re-declare the Integer as a PC Integer, I didn't because I don't like overriding the default type.

I think that there should be a compiler directive to generate code, or maybe typecasting should be implemented, in case someone writes data from a 32-bit word to prevent it from being read into a 16-bit word. I like Borland Style Type-Casting because it's logical, for example: VAR MyDword : DWord; MyLInt : LongInt;

BEGIN MyLint := -23; LongInt( MyDword ) := MyLint; END.

Not much of a logical example, but hopefully it shows you what I mean :}

See ya! Orlando Llanes