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Re: DOS compilers

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From: David Tolpin
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 21:40
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Hello yeung@reed.edu!

Monday December 07 1992, yeung@reed.edu writes to All:

 ye> I need a DOS Modula-2 compiler that will pack subranges, for example,
 ye> [0..255] would be stored in 1 BYTE.  The compiler that I ues store it as
 ye> an INTEGER.

Does your compiler have byte-sized cardinal type? If it is so, write something 
like

SHORTCARD[0..255]


David

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