The fact that Borland regarded "$FF..FF" as a 2's complement representation and not as a base-16 representation of an integer is not really what I would call "Pascal spirit". As a matter of fact, "Borland mess" would be more appropriate. :-)
I always avoid such imponderabilities by using fillchar to set all bits of a structure to 1 (or 0);
fillchar(X,$F); And single bits can be modified with AND/OR afterwards if needed. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
