Am 07.07.2019 um 07:33 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton: > Maybe I'm missing something painfully > obvious here. Can I request an example > where such an invalid value/undefined > behaviour crops up in bitpacked records so > I can see what's going on? Logic dictates > that the number of bits required to store > an enum in that arrangement is equal to > the index of the highest element, although > that's without looking at the source code > and doesn't account for elements that have > assigned negative values. > > In the meantime, I'm working on making > "as" and "is" work with ordinal types as > well as enumerations, although currently > some headaches occur if the right-hand > side is larger than the CPU word size > (e.g. Int64 on i386). I'll upload the > patch to the issue once it's working > properly.
I strongly recommend to add these changes at node level, then you do not have to fiddle with the alu sizes of different CPUs. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
