Dave Coventry wrote: > Wow. > > If I can push a little more: Can I read in an eight-byte IEEE double > using the same trick?
The example below is not complete, you need to cast. MyDouble:=LEtoN(PDouble(@buffer[5])^); Use codejumping (find declaration) on LEtoN to see what variants exist. Marc > > 2008/12/21 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[email protected]>: >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Lazarus mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >> > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
