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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What is the best way to convert Integer to Short_Short_Integer?
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On 11 Cze, 09:07, "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org>
wrote:

> Implementations are not required to define Short_Short_Integer (or any other
> predefined integer type except Integer), so the program may fail on other
> compilers. Thus, the use of Short_Short_Integer is not portable.

I have seen this argument raised many times already, but it was never
substantiated in terms actual risk estimation.
Could you please list the compilers that do not implement this type?

Or is there somewhere a public list of such incompatibilities?

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