On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Dave Coventry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there any documentation on this?

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/index-5.html

> would the following:
>
> longv:=LEtoN(@buffer[5]);
>
> be the same as:

No, it's better. It only performs a conversion from Little Endian to
current encoding. So it will just copy the contents if your software
is running in a little endian processor or do the adequate conversion
if your software is running in a big endian processor.

-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
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