# How about adding short and ushort primitive type into ATS prelude?

**URL:** <https://discourse.ats-lang.org/t/how-about-adding-short-and-ushort-primitive-type-into-ats-prelude/752>\
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**Created:** [August 20, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://discourse.ats-lang.org/t/how-about-adding-short-and-ushort-primitive-type-into-ats-prelude/752 "2016-08-20T15:58:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![gmhwxi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/67e7ee/32.png) [@gmhwxi](https://discourse.ats-lang.org/u/gmhwxi)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://discourse.ats-lang.org/t/how-about-adding-short-and-ushort-primitive-type-into-ats-prelude/752/1 "2016-08-20T15:58:08Z")

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They are already available:

short is sint in ATS.  
ushort is usint in ATS.On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 8:41:40 AM UTC-4, Kiwamu Okabe wrote:

> Hi Hongwei,
> 
> How about adding short and ushort primitive types into ATS prelude?  
> I find needing the primitive types, while seeking C header files in  
> /usr/include.
> 
> ## Best regards,
> 
> Kiwamu Okabe at METASEPI DESIGN

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**Author:** ![gmhwxi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/67e7ee/32.png) [@gmhwxi](https://discourse.ats-lang.org/u/gmhwxi)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://discourse.ats-lang.org/t/how-about-adding-short-and-ushort-primitive-type-into-ats-prelude/752/2 "2016-08-22T01:25:22Z")

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Okay, I have now mentioned sint and usint in:

[http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/x240.htmOn](http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/x240.htmOn) Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 6:36:31 PM UTC-4, Kiwamu Okabe wrote:

> Hi Hongwei,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 12:58 AM, gmhwxi \<…\> wrote:
> 
> > short is sint in ATS.  
> > ushort is usint in ATS.
> 
> I can’t find it, because reading following:
> 
> [Primitive Types](http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/x240.html)
> 
> I support it:
> 
> [Support short as sint in ATS · metasepi/c2ats@a104916 · GitHub](https://github.com/metasepi/c2ats/commit/a10491682dff3e24c3003ffa5ccda75f3d072349)
> 
> ## Thanks a lot,
> 
> Kiwamu Okabe at METASEPI DESIGN