Variable size/Set
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Demonstrate how to specify the minimum size of a variable or a data type.
Ada
<lang ada> type Response is (Yes, No); -- Definition of an enumeration type with two values for Response'Size use 1; -- Setting the size of Response to 1 bit, rather than the default single byte size </lang>
D
In D, any variables of static array of zero length has a size of zero. But such data is useless, as no base type element can be accessed.
<lang d>
typedef long[0] zeroLength ;
writefln(zeroLength.sizeof) ; // print 0
</lang>
NOTE: a dynamic array variable's size is always 8 bytes, 4(32-bit) for length and 4 for a reference pointer of the actual storage somewhere in runtime memory.
The proper candidates of minimum size variable are empty structure, 1-byte size data type variable (include byte, ubyte, char and bool), and void, they all occupy 1 byte.
<lang d>
byte b ;
ubyte ub ;
char c ;
bool t ;
</lang>
bool is logically 1-bit size, but it actually occupy 1 byte.
void can't be declared alone, but void.sizeof gives 1.
An empty structure is logically zero size, but still occupy 1 byte.
<lang d>
struct Empty { }
writefln(Empty.sizeof) ; // print 1
</lang>
Perl
I suppose you could use vec() or similar to twiddle a single bit. The thing is, as soon as you store this in a variable, the SV (the underlying C implementation of the most simple data type) already takes a couple dozen of bytes.
In Perl, memory is readily and happily traded for expressiveness and ease of use.