[fpc-pascal]sizeof returns wrong size?

[James_Wilson at i2.com]

> This will always return 4 I think (because a generic "var"
> parameter is simply a pointer to whatever data you are passing
> to the routine).

> You will have to add an explicit size parameter to your routine
> to solve this.

Unfortunately, that won't work, primarily because the passed var could be 
of any size. I'm hoping there's some way to get the actual size of the var 
itself.


Jim
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