From: XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia)
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Subject: Re: typedef'ing a 24-bit integer
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 20:13:21 GMT
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El día Wed, 26 May 1999 18:15:32 +0100, Miguel Guerreiro
<a14616 AT aaual DOT ualg DOT pt> escribió:

>What about other languages?...
>
>I think that in pascal you can do something like this:
>
>    type
>        uint24 = $0..$FFFFFF
>    end

But that doesn't mean that a uint24 variable will take three bytes,
just that the compiler will (try to) check the values you assign to an
uint24. It will probably still use four bytes to store it, at least in
32-bit machines.

Regards:
GUILLE
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Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (ya sabes :-)