[fpc-devel] missing descriptions for few compiler magic functions

Paul Ishenin webpirat at mail.ru
Tue Jul 21 02:48:55 CEST 2009


Jonas Maebe wrote:
> Several of them are 2.3.1, so it's normal that they are not yet in the 
> documentation.
Ah. Then it is ok.
>> - Pack
>> - ReadStr
>> - Unpack
>> - WriteStr
>
> These come straight from ISO (Standard or Extended) Pascal and behave 
> exactly as described in the standards:
> * Pack, Unpack: 
> http://www.moorecad.com/standardpascal/iso7185.html#6.6.5.4%20Transfer%20procedures 
>
> * ReadStr, WriteStr: section 6.7.5.5 of 
> http://www.moorecad.com/standardpascal/iso10206.pdf (p. 86 of the pdf)
Thanks, now Pack and Unpack are more clear for me.

For Lazarus we need their correct definitions to list them the the 
identifier completion window. We aready declared them somehow but I 
searched for better declarations of your team.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.





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