Absolute size of 'short'

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer):
>	typedef short int_9, int_10, /*...*/, int_16;
>	typedef long  int_17, /*...*/, int_32;
[etc.]
>(One admitted flaw: the bitwidth must be specified directly in this scheme;
>you can't compute it at compile-time.)

Perhaps you can:

    #define xintbits(n)     int_ ## n
    #define intbits(n)      xintbits(n)

    /* The nested macro expands the argument before concatenating tokens. */

    #define COLORBITS       9

    typedef intbits(COLORBITS)  color_t;

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