On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:01:52 -0400, you wrote:
>Where did "byte" come from?  Pascal does not guarantee a data type named
>"byte".  You need to be more specific and define "byte".
>
As others have said, Borland (and OmegaSoft) Pascal define byte to be
unsigned 8 bits, which of course, makes perfect sense.

>typedef struct recpack_t {
>  unsigned int abc: 8;
>  unsigned int def: 8;
>  } recpack_t;
>
=46unny, I never thought of that :) I checked that option out with the
ADSP-218x compiler, and it does indeed generate identical code as my
far less elegant conversion.

That's pretty cool if your convertor will do that transformation
automatically, I'm pretty sure the one I used couldn't.

I suppose in the end it will come down to whether we will be trying
to maintain both platforms, in which case it may make sense to try
to use one codebase for both, one translated, one not. If, on the
other hand, he plans on dropping support for the old hardware, he may
want me to just convert to C and be done with it. If that's the case,
I'll certainly make my life easier and use the bitfields.

Bob (definately not a C expert!)

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