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Mnemonix
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Posted: 13th Dec 2002 01:24
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Has anybody noticed that dbpro uses 4 byte integers rather than the bog standard 2byte integers that most other languages use. A long integer in dbpro takes up 8 bytes when a standard long integer would only take up 4 bytes. I dont know if this is weird or not but the range of a byte is 0 to 255 when i would expect it to be -128 to 127. If sum1 from the db team can answer my query i wud be grateful
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Posted: 13th Dec 2002 01:33
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Most languages for 32-bit OS's have 32bit integers rather than 16bit. And most in most languages a Byte is unsigned (0-255).

But I'm not a member of the DBS team...

Ogres have layers.
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Posted: 13th Dec 2002 02:18
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Vb 6 uses a 16bit integer. A long integer is 32 bit. I can understand the part about the byte

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Posted: 13th Dec 2002 03:16
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I don't have VB. But both Delphi (since Version 2 me thinks) and C++ Builder use 32bit integer. And AFAK Visual C++ too.

Ogres have layers.
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