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- From: yeung@reed.edu (Woodrow Yeung)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: DOS compilers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.041140.13563@reed.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 04:11:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Dec12.041140.13563
- References: <00964EF9.ED4454E0.16140@esseX.stfx.ca>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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- In article <00964EF9.ED4454E0.16140@esseX.stfx.ca> Modula2 List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> writes:
- >>Woody asks
- >>I need a DOS Modula-2 compiler that will pack subranges, for example,
- >>[0..255] would be stored in 1 BYTE. The compiler that I ues store it as an
- >>INTEGER.
- >
- >For a case like this i just use an ordinary character as a byte value
- >then do the conversions with the standard built in functions.
- >
-
- Problem is I'm doing cross platform development and my code already takes
- advantage of subrange packing on the Mac side.
-
- Woody
- yeung@reed.edu
-