Re: Modula2 for C programmers?

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From: "David Collier"
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 22:57

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>It is clearly safest to avoid using this extension (contamination?) and 
>to stick with the PIM case as I suggested and use VAL for the rest.

I suppose so. Trouble is I came first to JPI, and never realised for AGES 
that there was anything odd about it!

I think the answer is to use VAL for everything, unless you seriously 
intend to copy the bit pattern across, in which case set up variant 
records, and pass everything through them. 

Though as Peter Moylan points out, you can check that the SIZE of 2 
things is equivalent, in theory you can't discount a computer strong it's 
floating point values ( or anything else ) in BCD.....:-((

David.

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