> Hi,
> lots of types in lcltypes are declared as packed,which i dont know why,
> as far as i know lots of them are similar to types with almost exact name
> from windows unit,but as you look at windows unit,none of them are
> packed.
> also almost all of these records are by itself 2byte or 4byte aligned,ie
> removing packed will not influence them.
>
> The problem is in wince, by using packed lots of things change,compiler
> now generates unaligned codes,and becouse it defaults packing to
> 1byte,packed variables might reside in odd number memory places.
> This doesnt make problem in program,becouse all accesses are done in one
> byte schema,but when sending these records to winapi,they all generate
> errors,which is really hard to find too!
>
> I suggest removing all packed records when they are unessesary.
Removing the packed is also required for win64.
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