Pascal --> C question

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In article <3352 at psuvax1.psu.edu> schwartz at gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>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.

Yes, but in C you are guaranteed that bits are actually used.  Not many
implementations of Pascal bother to implement packed arrays any differently
than non-packed arrays, so what you get is an array of 1024 words (where the
sizeof(word) is implementation-dependent).
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