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From: jm@bbn.com (John Morrison)
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Subject: Unsigned quantities
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Date: 18 Sep 89 15:58:00 GMT
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We are having a little trouble getting 16-bit unsigned data types for
a protocol implementation out of our TeleSoft compiler.  This seems to
be a general problem.  We can't get the compiler to "forget about"
sign bits.

We've done the obvious things, but the compiler is still rejecting our
rep specs.  Since this is a protocol implementation, we've got no
choice about the representation of the field.

Does anybody know how to do this?  Does anybody know of a better
compiler?


John Morrison

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