From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2004-03@t-domaingrabbing.de>
Subject: Re: data types & efficiency
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:00:53 +0100
Date: 2004-03-05T13:00:53+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9qg40l0lb2kqt9vi1q33s3c2s3gdcrtjl@jellix.jlfencey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c29iul$6p7$1@e3k.asi.ansaldo.it
Davide wrote:
>"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.
Why? If you're interfacing to some external (hardware) interface you
have to specify a certain size independent from the
target-architecture, but if you don't need this I don't see why you
should *have* to specify some size at all.
Vinzent.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-05 8:02 data types & efficiency Davide
2004-03-05 9:23 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-03-05 9:57 ` Davide
2004-03-05 12:00 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler [this message]
2004-03-05 15:54 ` Davide
2004-03-05 20:53 ` tmoran
2004-03-08 9:28 ` Davide
2004-03-08 8:58 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2004-03-08 10:53 ` Davide
2004-03-08 15:27 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-03-05 10:22 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
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