[fpc-devel] FPC_REQUIRES_PROPER_ALIGNMENT

[Jonas Maebe]

On 13 Oct 2004, at 23:02, Marc Weustink wrote:

>> We also don't emulate endianess. Portability has a lot of pitfalls.
>
> In a matter of fact, you do support endianness. As an enduser I don't 
> have to take care ot the phisical representation of an integer for 
> instance.
> An integer and $FF is still a value between 0 and 255.
> An integer shl 2 is still doubled no matter its representation in 
> memory.

That's because internally all processors are big endian, not because we 
do something special.


Jonas