The Trybos/YBOS data storage model is that of a one-dimensional array of
four-byte, signed integers. Since C and C++ do not guarantee the exact size of
integer types, the typedef ``int4'' is defined in the header file
TRY_Fixed_Size_Types
to describe a four-byte signed integer on all supported
operating systems and compilers. Other fixed-size and related types include are
listed in Table 1 on page 
.
Note that the ``char'' data type is used in Trybos in preference to the ``int1''
data type for ASCII characters, and the ``byte'' data type is used in preference
to the ``uint1'' data type.
NOTE: Wherever in this text that a quantity is referred to an integer or a word, it is a four-byte signed integer declared as an int4.