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From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: Question about "for X'Size use ..."
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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> writes:

> Does that "for use" clause actually do anything? 

> Does it affect how things are written to streams?

There is no effect because the stream operations operate on the base
type, and you can't specify the size of a base type.