Re: SIZE function for FST (DOS) compiler?

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From: Peter Moylan
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 21:55

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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.  

I haven't checked the FST features lately; but both SIZE(variable)
and TSIZE(type) are in the language.  You can import them from
SYSTEM.  If these are missing, it's a compiler bug.

You won't find them in a definition module, though.
They're built-in functions, not library functions.

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