[fpc-devel] Packed record integers and x86_86

[Sven Barth]

DJ Coertzen <patrolliekaptein at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 27. März 2019,
18:27:

> Hi there,
>
> I need a solution for a packed record containing 4-byte 32-bit integers
> and cardinals, and other byte 8 bit and word 16 bit sized variables to
> overlay over a stream.
>
> Example:
> *type*
> *  TMyBinaryHeader = packed record*
> *    Sender    : Cardinal;*
>
> *    Target    : Cardinal;*
>
> *    Reference : Integer;    *
>
> *    Flags     : Word;*
> *    CheckByte : Byte;*
> *  end;*
>
> So on 32 bit systems, SizeOf(TMyBinaryHeader) will report 15 bytes. How do
> I accomplish this on 64 bit platform and avoiding "myprotocollib.pas(x,y)
> Error: Typecast has different size (4 -> 8) in assignment" without having
> to port to ugly byte copy operations.
>

Would you show the code at/around the error location, please? I suspect
that it isn't the record that's the problem, but how you use it.

Regards,
Sven

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