Node: ShortInt, Next: ShortReal, Previous: ShortCard, Up: Reference

### ShortInt

#### Synopsis

         type
           ShortInt  { built-in type }

#### Description

`ShortInt` is a signed integer type which is not larger than `Integer`. On some platforms it is 16 bits wide and thus has a range of `-32768 .. 32767`.

`ShortInt` in GNU Pascal is compatible to `short int` in GNU C.

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

#### Conforming to

`ShortInt` is a Borland Pascal extension. In Borland Pascal, `ShortInt` is an 8-bit signed integer type (`ByteInt` in GNU Pascal).

#### Example

         program ShortIntDemo;
         var
           a: ShortInt;
         begin
           a := 42;
           WriteLn (a)
         end.

#### See also

Integer Types, Subrange Types.