http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse67.html#x124-13400012.4
In general, the type size of the expression and the size of the type
cast must be the same. However, for ordinal types (byte, char, word,
boolean, enumerates) this is not so, they can be used interchangeably.
That is, the
Below works with 2.6.2 but not with trunk
Is that indented?
the wiki says
Default values are now properly typechecked
* *Old behaviour*: The compiler did not detect default values for
parameters of which the type did not in any way correspond to the
parameter type.
*
On 08/02/2014 19:25, Martin Frb wrote:
In the below (first) example longint(1) and TFoo have the same size.
Yet in the first example they fail. This is not covered by the
documentation.
The doc even gives examples involving typecasting constant values.
Byte(’A’)
given that the doc
Martin Frb schrieb:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse67.html#x124-13400012.4
In general, the type size of the expression and the size of the type
cast must be the same. However, for ordinal types (byte, char, word,
boolean, enumerates) this is not so, they can be used
On 08/02/2014 21:59, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Typecasts can be further restricted to *compatible* types. Here
numeric types seem to be compatible with other numeric types, but not
with structured types (records...).
Well than that needs to be added to the docs. I have no problems with
it
