[fpc-pascal] Problem with FPC2.0.2 and windows

[Jonas Maebe]

On 04 Jan 2006, at 21:51, Hans Mårtensson wrote:

>>> Does PPC 2.0.2 handle alignment of data the same way as former   
>>> versions?
>>
>> The statements below have nothing to do with alignment.
>>
> The type of pBoxtemplate is ^word.
> Is it not true that
>  (dword(pBoxtemplate) and 1)=1
> evaluates to TRUE, if and only if pBoxtemplate is NOT aligned to a  
> word boundary (16 bit boundary)?
>
> And then, assuming pBoxtemplate is aligned to word boundary, is it  
> not true, that
>  if (dword(pBoxtemplate) and 2)=2
> evaluates to TRUE, if pBoxtemplate is NOT aligned to a dword  
> boundary (32 bit boudary), causing the statement
>  if (dword(pBoxtemplate) and 2)=2 then inc(pBoxtemplate);
> to make the pBoxtemplate align to a dword boundary (by eventually  
> adding 2 to pBoxtemplate (because sizeof(word)=2)??

Yes, but this is independent of how the compiler handles alignment of  
data.


Jonas