[fpc-pascal] WORD (2 bytes) to String conversion
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Sat Oct 24 17:30:43 CEST 2009
In our previous episode, Jürgen Hestermann said:
> > As Marco suggested... Char size might not always be the same.
>
> Why that? I hope noone changes the meaning of such long-time types some
> day. If a new type is needed, then it should get a new name too.
Codegear did this with Delphi 2009 in August 2008, forcing to check all
string code.
However FPC will probably only add a Delphi2009 mode, and code in the
current modes will remain working.
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