Am 30.03.2012 17:40 schrieb "Mark Morgan Lloyd" < markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk>: > > A few weeks ago somebody (Martin?) suggested I got round an endianness issue by doing this: > > type WordLE= packed record b0, b1: byte; end; > > operator := (wle: WordLE): word; > > begin > .. > > It works well, except that attempting to use an assignment inside the operator definition immediately recurses: I've fixed this by using Move(), with operand sizes check by assertion. > > Is it possible to tell the compiler that, for a code fragment like this, it is under no circumstances to attempt any implicit type conversions?
No, there is no possibility. But why dies it try to do a type conversion in the first place? Can you show your code please? Also operator overloads should be considered "from great power comes great responsibility". Regards, Sven
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