Juha Manninen wrote:
No. As far as I understand, sets are stored in 1 byte internally - as
binary values. 256 is the max number of elements (bit values) it can
hold in a byte.
This is one area where FPC could actually improve things.
The 1 byte limit is purely historical. There are no 8-bit CPUs
supported by FPC that would justify it.
I am annoyed by some LCL bugs which are there only for Delphi compatibility.
This issue is similar. This kind of artificial limitation could easily be fixed.
Without wanting to cause upset, before you make statements like that I
think you could /really/ do with checking how many bits fit in a byte :-)
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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