SHORT integer on some machines, but this usage is not portable, and is not detected by the compiler. The compiler does not verify that a procedure is declared and used consistently. Do not use type coercion in procedure actual arguments. Such as:
call foobar (..., short (intvar), ...)In some cases, the coercion is not performed in passing the argument to the procedure. A particular problem is using a literal (quoted) character in the calling sequenct to a procedure expecting a char such as stridx(). Such a literal is converted into an integer constant. On some systems, it won't matter if the called procedure expects a long or short integer, but on some, it will result in the wrong value passed.
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