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<p>On 10 okt '12, Sven Barth wrote:</p>
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<pre>Am 10.10.2012 12:02, schrieb <a href="mailto:dhkblaszyk@zeelandnet.nl:">dhkblaszyk@zeelandnet.nl:</a></pre>
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<pre>Please note that you might also need to take care of different endianess
(big endian vs. little endian) if you want to transfer such record data
(e.g. through files) between systems with different endianess. In that
case you'll need to write the record field by field and convert the
endianess in one of the two cases...
Regards,
Sven
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<p>Thanks Jonas and Sven... Endianess is indeed an issue I will be handling. It's my understanding now that by storing data in a packed record I will have the same behaviour (when it comes to aligning data in memory) over all platforms and architectures. Same applies to packed objects. However when objects have methods, does that change memory alignment (compared to different architectures)? Is there any impact when I start using object inheritance?</p>
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<p>The background behind my questions is the implementation of an IFF reader/writer in FPC. The reader/writer will be generated from available data types (simple ones as well as objects and records). To simplify the code I want to make use of the abstraction that FPC gives me.</p>
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<p>Regards, Darius</p>
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