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In article <3352@psuvax1.psu.edu> schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
 writes:
:In article <4940001@hpiacla.HP.COM> mlight@hpiacla.HP.COM (Mike Light ) writes:
:>>    SinWave: packed array[0..255] of char;
:>>    char SinWave[256];
:
:>Almost any pascal-ism has an equivalent in C (but not necessarily
:>the other way around).
:
:Except that the useful ones are never that easy.  One of my favorites:
:    bitstring: packed array[0..1023] of boolean;
:In C you have to do bit-fiddling by hand to get the same effect.
:

How about:

typedef char bool;
bool bitstring[1024];

Or does the "packed" thing in Pascal have some special meaning?  I never could
figure out what the difference between a packed array and a regular array was.

Frank Swarbrick (and his cat)
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