From: mlin@pdx222.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Ming T. Lin)
Subject: WORD = BYTE ??
Reply-To: mlin@ichips.intel.com
Organization: Workgroup Computing Division, PDX, Intel
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    I just moved from Borland C++ 3.0 to Visual C++ today. When I tried
to compile my C++ program, it complained a function prototype problem.
It turned out that the typedef WORD in MS C++ is a BYTE, not unsigned int.

    Could anyone shine some light on this subject ? Why a WORD is a BYTE ?


-Ming T. Lin


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