Hej Patrick!

Wednesday October 23 1996, Patrick Spence writes to Allan Mertner:

 PS> While trying to port a program from dos to os/2, I ran across this
 PS> little anomoly... in Turbopascal 7.0 a set of uflags (as follows) is
 PS> 3 bytes in size. In VP 1.1 it comes out to 4 bytes...

 PS> Regardless of which one is doing what, do you know of a method I can use
 PS> to force VP to use 3 bytes for the size?

Yes, sets with this number of elements are 3 bytes if the definition is
compiled in the {$Delphi-} state - as it is Borland Pascal.  In Delphi, 3
byte sets are 4 bytes in size and VP/2 also makes these sets 4 bytes in the
{$Delphi+} state.

 PS> byte, or is starting with different assumptions..  I really don't want to
 PS> have different data files between the versions, so would like an easy work
 PS> around if you know one...  Thanks..

Compile the type definition in the Delphi- state - and it'll work.

Yours,
Allan

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