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From: Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greggy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Bug in MPW Pascal 2.0.2 ???
Message-ID: <2802@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 89 01:46:55 GMT
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In article <445d59a8.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> 
mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) writes:
> [ ... discussions by various people about subranges fitting into 
>   different memory sizes... VAR u : 0..65535 ]
> Human logic says that the compiler should recognize that the range
> for u is larger than MaxInt, and should therefore make u a long
> integer, but the compiler might be thinking that it can store 65535
> in one word and made u an integer...  

Actually, human logic (and the Pascal language) says that if I declared a 
range of 0..65535, then by gosh the only numbers that had better come in 
and out of those variables better not go beyond the range I set!  Period.  
I don't care how the compiler implements it.  (Well, that's not entirely 
true.  I DO have to live with the Mac ROM, and it kind of cares... a 
little... %-b )

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