Right. We work very hard at maintaining portability, which benefits us and
our customers with multiple processors as well. If you look at your \Src
directory, _all_ of the files that are in this directory (and not in
MCU-specific subdirectories) are shared among all the processors we
support, from low-end 8-bitters like the 8051 and AVR to various 32-bit
platforms.

As to your question, the answer depends upon whether you think your company
may at some point in the future bring out a low-end product line based on
16-bit processors that may need to run some of this code.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

At 08:07 AM 3/27/01 -0600, you wrote:

>Nevermind. I see:
>
>5.3.1 Date and Time of Day Functions
>...
>SwiftX stores time information internally as an unsigned, double number
>repre-senting
>seconds since midnight. There are 86,400 seconds in a day, so a double
>number is required for portability across 16- and 32-bit implementations.
>
>Since I need to keep a log of time on a 32-bit system, I'm wondering if I
>aught to store the whole double...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: swiftx-bounce_at_forth.com [mailto:swiftx-bounce_at_forth.com]On Behalf
>Of Dennis W. Bulgrien
>Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 8:01 AM
>To: Swiftx_at_Forth. Com
>Subject: [swiftx] Why TIME's ud?
>
>
>
>@TIME, (TIME), and .TIME take an unsigned double number ud. When is the
>double utilized since the max number of seconds since
>midnight is 86400? Are the 32-bit folks carrying around an extra zero
>cell for the 16-bit folks?
>--
>Dennis W. Bulgrien, Engineer Mailto:dbulgrien_at_vcsd.com
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