[Oberon] Question about SYSTEM.BIT() in Oberon-7

[Joerg]

Robert

You‘re absolutely right:
SYSTEM.BIT(a, 0) checks the LSB of the word at address a.

I guess for Reals.IntL you don‘t need SYSTEM.BIT.

br
Jörg

> Am 04.06.2021 um 23:55 schrieb R. S. Doiel <rsdoiel at gmail.com>:
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> This is probably a bit of a novice question and I apologize but
> it has me puzzled.  In the Oberon-7 language report's
> SYSTEM.BIT() is described as using "n" to address a specific bit.
> On first reading I assumed "n" zero would be the LSB and "n"
> thirty one would be MSB where the compiler deals with the local
> implementation of bit ordering. Is that the correct reading
> of the report?
> 
> I was planning on implementing a procedure like Native Oberon's
> Reals.IntL() but then started having doubts about my reading of the
> Oberon-7 report. Have I made too simple a set of assumptions about
> how I should expect SYSTEM.BIT() to work under Oberon-7
> implementations?
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Robert Doiel
> 
> 
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