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In article <4iitag$ai7@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> jesst63+@pitt.edu (Jeffrey E Stoner) writes:
>Ronald Snelgrove (ronald@newton.physics.BrockU.CA) wrote:
>: To anyone using the Fitted Software Modula-2 compiler for DOS:
>:   I have already looked through all of the definition modules for this and
>: couldn't find it, so I'm hoping that I have just missed it.  I was wondering
>: if there was a function that when given a data type, would return  the number
>: of bytes required to store that type, ie SIZE(INTEGER) would return 2.  This
>: would be the equivalent to the TSIZE function on the Macintosh MetroWerks
>: compiler, if that helps anyone.  

Just import the functions SIZE and/or TSIZE from the Pseudo-Module SYSTEM (not System).
I don't have the differences at hand, but they both exist.


>
>Well, in the manual, pages 21-22 lists the amount of storage for each data
>type.  Simply count 'em up.

Please don't do that, your programm will get very machine and compiler dependent

>
>Jeff
>
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