[ale] solved, sort of OT: c++ datatypes question

[J.M. Taylor]

Well, right before quitting time I tried something small and silly in the 
same section of code as the line in question:
  WORD tmpvar;
  tmpvar = 2;

No issues on compile or run.  So, thinks I, what if I do 
  WORD tmpvar;
  tmpvar = (short)atoi(buffer);
  wVar = tmpvar;

Works beautifully (buffer is my incoming string).

Now. I don't understand why that should be any different than
  wVar = (short)atoi(buffer);

Where the declaration of wVar is in the header file and not inline like 
above.  But, it works. 


I am going to follow the various suggestions I got from this list about 
hunting down the definition of WORD and see if I can tell what's going on. 
If anybody sees where I've been stupid, I would love to know about it.

Thanks for all the input
jenn


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