Re: [ooc-compiler] Windows headers

[Alexander I. <aj...@ya...>]

Hello, Stewart!

>  >    XDS Oberon-2 compiler supports unsigned integers in the form of SYSTEM.CARD8,
>  >    SYSTEM.CARD16 and SYSTEM.CARD32.
>  Sound useful, especially for interfacing to foreign code. Often it makes 
>  little difference (eg. integer addition), and providing nothing special 
>  happens on overflow you can live with the results. Probably most 
>  annoying is where you need constants that fill the entire width of the 
>  type - these sometimes have to be converted to negative numbers to stop 
>  the compiler complaining.

  As far as I remember from the docs oo2c treats hexadecimal constants as unsigned.
  I.e. to fill a 2-byte word, you can simply use 0FFFFH, which is quite readable. Or did
  you mean something else?

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 Alexander