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From: cjl@iuvax.UUCP
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Subject: Type Transfer Functions
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Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 22:39:00 EDT
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Are low level type transfer functions limited to system
primitive types ? How about user defined types, especially
structured types ? My Hamburg version of Modula-2/VMS compiler
won't accept the user defined types as the low level type transfer
functions even when they occupy the same size of storage and have
the same memory alignment boundary. As a result, I have to rely on 
the record variant to break the type checking for some structured
data, e.g. system file buffers.