ShortCard

Synopsis

     type
       ShortCard = Cardinal attribute (Size = BitSizeOf (ShortInt));

Description

ShortCard is an unsigned integer type which is not larger than Cardinal. On some platforms it is 16 bits wide and thus has a range of 0 .. 65535.

ShortCard in GNU Pascal is compatible to short unsigned int in GNU C.

There are lots of other integer types in GPC, see Integer Types.

Conforming to

ShortCard is a GNU Pascal extension.

Example

     program ShortCardDemo;
     var
       a: ShortCard;
     begin
       a := 42;
       WriteLn (a)
     end.

See also

Integer Types, Subrange Types.