Пётр Косаревский wrote:
Yes, you do. :) Nevertheless some_type = record case Something : byte of 1: (x,y: word); 2: (z: longword); end;Thank you, Jonas and Vincent, but I was vague: what I want is blockread'ing, so I have to use record Something: byte; case byte of 1: (x,y: word); 2: (z: longword); end;
No, AFAIK you don't have to, it's the same, just a different syntax. Your "Something" byte discrimant will be there. Or where else do you think it is stored within the structure?
Probably you should used a "packed record", though. And it's in no way portable, of course.
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