Set constants

[Peter Gerwinski]

Hello,

when storing constants of type "set" in Pascal or Chill, the GNU
compiler uses a string of bytes.  In Pascal, however, we currently
handle sets as strings of ints.  This causes problems on big-endian
machines (for obvious reasons).

Changing the Pascal compiler to store sets in bytes rather than
ints would of course be possible, but I would expect a loss of
performance from this.  Is there any special reason why the GNU
compiler stores sets as bytes?  If not, I would suggest to
change get_set_constructor_bytes() in tree.c and related
functions to generate ints instead of bytes.

    Peter

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