On Sun, August 7, 2016 18:11, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Hello Mark, > Given a declaration > > const > topDataQword= 29; > topNameChar= 231; > > type > Tfnord= record > case boolean of > false: (data: array[0..topDataQword] of qword); > true: (name: array[0..topNameChar] of char; > inode: qword) (* For recovery if name is > changed *) > end; > > is it possible to enforce a rule that the two record variants must be > the same size? What would the rule supposedly do? As far as I know, all the variants take the size of the largest one technically (in memory). Do you mean that the compiler should warn if their declared size differs? Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
