[fpc-devel] Freepascal in microcontrollers

[Jonas Maebe]

On 28 Feb 2008, at 08:19, Daniël Mantione wrote:

> As long as the compiler is consistent between platforms, it is okay.  
> Differences between little/big endian are acceptable because this is  
> the only situation where we require the coder to manually intervene  
> and write two code paths (usually a simple endian conversion). We  
> don't force the coder to make different code paths between i.e.  
> Linux/Windows, nor should we.

It's not about Linux vs. Windows, it's about FPC 2.2.0 vs FPC 3.4.0,  
coupled with the fact that bitpacked records as currently defined are  
not usable for defining a specific layout.

For that sort of functionality, you need extensions anyway. If someone  
wants that functionality, it's better to create such extensions so the  
programmer can in fact specify everything and implement that, rather  
than adding constraints to the implementation of bitpacked records.


Jonas