[fpc-devel] compiler bug?

[peter green]

you are forciblly putting an out of range value in a variable what do you
expect to happen?


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> [mailto:fpc-devel-bounces at lists.freepascal.org]On Behalf Of Jesus Reyes
> Sent: 30 December 2004 19:37
> To: lista de fpc-devel
> Subject: [fpc-devel] compiler bug?
>
>
> I have doubts about this so I made a small test, what I want to know
> is if a true boolean value be internally be represented by any value
> different from 0.
>
> program problem;
> var
>   B: boolean;
> begin
>   FillChar(B, SizeOf(B), 255);
>   case b of
>     true: WriteLn(True);
>     false: WriteLn(False);
>     else WriteLn('OTHER');
>   end;
> end.
>
> I'm using : Free Pascal Compiler version 1.9.5 [2004/12/29] for i386
> under linux.
>
> the program output: OTHER, it's a compiler bug?
>
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