12 Dec
2002
12 Dec
'02
8:32 p.m.
"J. David Bryan" wrote:
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I acknowledge that it is helpful to have foreign (e.g., C) semantics for interfacing. But is there any need for a general Boolean size, or only for "Boolean (8)", "Boolean (16)", etc.? If so, then the latter might be predefined, and the general mechanism dropped.
The standard way to create an array of 1 bit booleans is with 'packed'. i.e. "packed array [0..31] of boolean" could occupy one 32 bit word. No need for C bitfields. A boolean is already a two valued enumeration.
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