http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=11575 A place to share, learn, and grow... en-US Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:22:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://forums.leaflabs.com/search.php http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=11575#post-25960 Mon, 13 May 2013 07:12:24 +0000 gbulmer 25960@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>pyrohaz - It might be worth noting for future reference that you could get the compiler to help.</p> <pre><code>void loop() { struct { char a, b; } twochar; // print the size of each type: SerialUSB.print(&quot;sizeof(int) &quot;); SerialUSB.println(sizeof(int)); SerialUSB.print(&quot;sizeof(char) &quot;); SerialUSB.println(sizeof(char)); SerialUSB.print(&quot;sizeof(long) &quot;); SerialUSB.println(sizeof(long)); SerialUSB.print(&quot;sizeof(long long) &quot;); SerialUSB.println(sizeof(long long)); // ! SerialUSB.print(&quot;sizeof(short) &quot;); SerialUSB.println(sizeof(short)); SerialUSB.print(&quot;sizeof(float) &quot;); SerialUSB.println(sizeof(float)); SerialUSB.print(&quot;sizeof(double) &quot;); SerialUSB.println(sizeof(double)); SerialUSB.print(&quot;sizeof(twochar) &quot;); SerialUSB.println(sizeof(twochar)); }</code></pre> http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=11575#post-25915 Sun, 12 May 2013 20:32:09 +0000 pyrohaz 25915@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>Ah! I can use int16, my apologies, please disregard this thread. </p> http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=11575#post-25914 Sun, 12 May 2013 20:23:41 +0000 pyrohaz 25914@http://forums.leaflabs.com/ <p>Hey guys, I need an array of length: 8192 storing data between -32768 and 32767 (2^16-1 range, equivalent to two bytes) after looking at the supported maple types, there seems to be no form of 2 byte data type and storing these values as ints consumes too much data, around 32.8kb! If I could store each value as a two bytes rather than 4, this would halve right?</p> <p>Therefore, how can I do so?</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Harris </p>