[missing feature] Is there a postfix for unsigned 16-bit hex values ?

[D.J.Peters]

I know it exists unsigned 32-bit postfix "UL" e.g. &H81234UL but Is there a kind of 16-bit "US" also ?

something like: &H8123US

Joshy

[SARG]

No.
Look at https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/TblVarTypes

[D.J.Peters]

No.

That's exactly what I didn't want to hear.

Joshy

[angros47]

You'll have to use "cast"

https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/KeyPgCast

[dodicat]

Tag on US and smell the coffee?

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#cmdline "-w none"

#define US and 65535u

print &H81234UL
print &H81234ULUS
print cushort(&H81234UL)
print cast(ushort,&H81234UL)

sleep 
 

[Berkeley]

What for ?

If you have

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DIM AS USHORT myval

myval=&H3B1

won't make any trouble. Perhaps if you assign a long value, it's cut to 16 bit. If you assign a short value to a long variable, the highbytes should be set to 0 automatically. You'd have to write into the memory directly to get "unwanted" results.

An to keep it safe, use

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myval=myval AND &HFFFF

to turn a ULONG value into a USHORT. For signed numbers better use the CAST operator. Curiously, the difference between signed and unsigned integers is a bigger problem.