[fpc-devel] conversion between types?

[Bruce Bauman]

I am porting a large body of code from the MetaWare Professional Pascal compiler to Free Pascal.
The existing code makes extensive use of the MetaWare "retype" construct, which allows you to convert between types. For example:
 
retype(X, Rec1Ptr) will convert the obect X to the type "Rec1Ptr".
 
Is it possible to do something equivalent in FPC?
 
There are > 1000 uses of this, and I'd prefer to make the minimal modifications.
 
Thanks.
 
-- Bruce
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