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From: "Davide" <ppp@ppp.it>
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Subject: Re: data types & efficiency
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:57:39 +0100
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"Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler" wrote:

>3) Declare the type by specifying its range and let the compiler
>figure out what could be more efficient on the hardware.

unfortunately I *must* specify the 'SIZE of each data type or subtype.