Re: Set limitations
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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On Jan 11, 2025 at 8:17:33 PM, Hairy Pixels <[email protected]> wrote: > I was curious, is there any practical limit on the size of a set (32 bits > and 256 values) and why they couldn’t be 64 bit or any other arbitrary > size? The floor seems to be 4 bytes too but why not allow smaller sizes to > save memory? Perhaps just a historical artifact but I was curious. > Sorry that was wrong, the biggest size is 32 bytes and the largest size of an enum is 256 elements. I was talking about sets of enums also if that wasn ’t clear. I still don’t see it’s possible to make a set which is smaller than 4 bytes, even in the 0..7 range. Regards, Ryan Joseph _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal