Absolute size of 'short'

[Karl Heuer]

chip at ateng.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer):
>>(One admitted flaw: the bitwidth must be specified directly in this scheme;
>>you can't compute it at compile-time.)
>
>Perhaps you can [using token pasting]

I thought of that, but it's not particularly useful, since it won't handle
`#define COLORBITS (4+5)'.  It could be done with m4, but cpp has no option to
preevaluate the RHS.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint