Re: (OT) Defining Variables in C with Bases other than 2 or 16
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:25:05 -0600
Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> There is a way in C to define boolean variables as in:
>
> typedef char boolean; /* boolean data type */
>
> Is there a similar method of defining a variable such as base
> 12 or 24 or any arbitrary value?
>
> Thanks.
>
You can use structs with bitfields. See for example
http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/chapter6/bitfields.html
Take note though that you won't really save much space here since due to CPU and
memory access limitations the data sizes are always rounded at least to the
closest builtin type (char(8),short(16),long/word(32)).
There are usually architecture limitations dictating aligning requirements on
data.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
> OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
>
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