[fpc-pascal] Set format

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Tue Nov 14 16:03:05 CET 2006


Marco van de Voort schrieb:
> Another question, do you intend to fix the other size problem too? (another
> Delphi incompatability)
> 
> I mean by this sets of  x..y  having a size of roundup((y-z+1)/8)  with z as
> x rounded down to the lower multiple of 8.
> 
> IOW, a set of 79..83 is two bytes in delphi.

Yes, this is the final goal. My approach was to make things completetly delphi
compatible. This wouldn't cause much incompatibilities on little endian system
with the old behaviour but on big endian systems it's a big mess.



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