Type I16

Validity: Rule, Task

This keyword allows you to define a 16-bit signed integer numeric variable in two's complement (C2).

Syntax	I16
Minimum representable number	-32768
Maximum representable number	32767
Size	2 Byte
Note	If precedes, in brackets, the variable name performs a force operation CAST

Some numbers in the two representation systems:

Hexadecimal representation	Decimal representation
0XA	10
0AH	10
10H	16
0FFH	255
0x200	512
0xFE00	-512
7FFFH	32767
8000H	-32768
0FFFFH	-1

Example of use:

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; definition of local variables task 1

;----------------------------------------

I16 pippo, pluto

I16 support

; example of force type "CAST"

; appo is an integer type variable with 32-bit sign

; pippo is an integer type variable with 16 bit sign

I32 appo

I16 peppo

; the value of appo is converted from 32 to 16 bits

; then assigned to peppo

peppo = (I16) (appo)

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