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Re: DOS compilers

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From: Woodrow Yeung
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:11
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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
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From: yeung@reed.edu (Woodrow Yeung)
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Subject: Re: DOS compilers
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Date: 12 Dec 92 04:11:40 GMT
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