Am 05.07.2019 um 13:53 schrieb Ralf Quint: > On 7/5/2019 3:27 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: >> >> Op 2019-07-05 om 11:49 schreef Bernd Oppolzer: >>> >>> IMO, the variants in a variant record should always overlay correctly >>> (like unions in C), >>> so the variant part should start at offset 32 in this case, and this >>> is where all three >>> variants should start. >> >> This is not a guarantee case in the Pascal language, afaik many old >> compilers don't even try, but make fields sequential. >> >> As soon as you have expections of overlaying, you are dialect and >> architecture specific. > > Shouldn't a PACKED Record guarantee that values are aligned at the byte > level?
It does in TP, but the ISO says only that it shall be economised. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
