On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, Torsten Bonde Christiansen wrote:
Hi list.
Please forgive me if this is too dumb a question, but:
When using a const written in hex, is the order significant?
Ie. will eg. $1F01 result in the same value (7937) on both big-endian and
little endian machines?
Yes.
It will be stored differently in memory, but the representation of the value is the same, regardless of the storage.
Likewise, if I use an absolute reference to a variable is the endianness also
significant?
ex.:
const
A: SmallInt = $1F01;
var
B: array[0..1] of byte absolute A;
Will B[0] be the same on both types of endian machines?
No, because here you actually access the memory, and the memory layout will
differ.
Michael.
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