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In article <409fr9$guo@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) wrote:

> What's more, if the bounds of the type are _computed_ the actual
> bounds may vary from installation to installation.
> Imagine something like signed<LowExpr, HighExpr>.

I don't think that run-time-computed limits is within the spirit of C,
since it would require dynamic typing.  If you mean compile-time
determination, that's OK.  Personally, I like the Pascal syntax:

 var i: -5..100;   { Not sure of exact syntax, but do know that ..
                    specifies an integer range. }

I have used that for a Pascal compiler that used the specified range
to select the variable representation.  For packed records, similar to
C structures, it used the range specifier to determine the exact
number of bits to allocate.

Thad