[fpc-devel] Freepascal in microcontrollers

[Michael Schnell]

> To my knowledge there is no problem with the current implementation. 
> Endian conversion is already the reponsibility of the programmer. 
> Therefore I don't see a need for changes on the compiler side.
>
I don't understand your meaning here.

If a record with binary fields is defined and transferred to (e.g.) 
another instance of the same program running on another machine by 
network or within a file, or if it needs to be crafted according to a 
specification of a network block or file format or a hardware device, 
endianess needs to be taken care of, and it's not nice if the user needs 
to write active code to do this, if a "bitpacked" type is available that 
seemingly can be used for that issue.

You even might want to define a record that just holds a single 16 bit 
value. Here it would be good to be able do define endianess of the 
bitpacked structure to make it compatible with the communication partner.

-Michael