[fpc-pascal] Set format

Vincent Snijders vsnijders at quicknet.nl
Tue Nov 14 13:31:21 CET 2006


Jonas Maebe schreef:
> Hello,
> 
> sets in FPC on big endian machines. The reason is that this would be 
> necessary to allow byte-packing of sets (so that e.g. a set of 0..63 
> would only occupy 1 byte as opposed to 4 like is currently the case). 

A set of 0..63 requires 64 bits, doesn't it? So it would need 8 bytes, or am I mistaken?

Vincent



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