On Thu, January 13, 2011 11:53, Jonas Maebe wrote: > > On 13 Jan 2011, at 09:32, Tomas Hajny wrote: > >> On Thu, January 13, 2011 09:01, _-jan...@web.de wrote: >>> A simple but fully functional kludge to make lo compatible with >>> Delphi is >>> >>> type lo=byte; >>> >>> Unfortunately for the similar cases of hi and swap you must provide a >>> function which cannot be used in a manifest constant expression. >> >> Well, you should probably mention that this replacement solution is >> not >> portable to big endian platforms / targets. > > It is portable to big endian targets. byte(longintvar) will return the > least significant byte on all targets (otherwise there would be almost > no portability of any integer code between big and little endian > targets).
OK, sorry for confusion then. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
