Dr John Stockton <jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk> writes:
>There are tricks in Pascal, which might adapt to Ada or C/C++ -

>Type T = { integer or shortint or longint } ;

shortint and longint are not in any Pascal standard.

>U = array [SizeOf(T)..2] of byte { should fail if T >16 bits } ;

sizeof is not in any Pascal standard (7185, 10206, or the draft OOP stuff).

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John �neas Byron O'Keefe; 1921/02/04-1997/09/27; TLG,TLTA,BBTNOTL.
Richard A. O'Keefe; RMIT Comp.Sci; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok