Hallo Ryan,
Op 23-01-97 om 08:55:08 schreef je aan Ting-Chiao Chu:
 TC>> I hope you are wrong. Otherwise Borland is going too far
 TC>> away from (standard) pascal with Delpi.
 RP> I could not port a 16 bit dos/windows pascal record into delphi2
 RP> without getting the record elements to line up unless PACKED was
 RP> used.  Otherwise the delphi2 compiler spreads the record elements out
 RP> in increments of 4 bytes (32 bits).  ie a variable of type REAL
 RP> doesn't take up 6 bytes in an unpacked record it takes up 8.
Oh, well, although it is probably more efficient for te processor, it does 
not make me happy. Before Delphi2 I could rely on the compiler that when I 
defined something to be that big, it would be that big and not bigger or 
smaller. Now it is becoming like basic where you can rely on nothing in 
memory.
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