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Woodrow Yeung (yeung@reed.edu) wrote:
: 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.

Most DOS compilers should -- for one I know that the TopSpeed
compilers pack all data types into the smallest possible memory.  You
may select to override it here and there if you wish.  I haven't got
any experience with the Stony Brook compiler, but would expect nothing
less of it.  Could someone perhaps check to see what the FST compiler
does, I haven't got a copy at hand.

Andries
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