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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Question about base types
Date: 1997/01/28
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Date: 1997-01-28T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <32ECD6B6.3B5A@elca-matrix.ch>,
Mats Weber  <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch> wrote:
>For 1 .. 10, the compiler is quite likely to choose <min> = -128 and
><max> = 127 in order to store your type in a single byte.

The compiler can choose -2**31..2**31-1 for the base range, and still
store variables of subtype T in a single byte.  This makes sense if the
machine has a load instruction that takes a single byte from memory and
puts it in a 32-bit register.

- Bob