Type casting_(re)

Sat, 14 Jun 1997 23:00:32 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Orlando Llanes:
> 
> Oh :} Sorry :} I briefly glanced at it, and what I saw was, for example:
> 
> TYPE
>   ShortInt = __byte__ Integer;
>   Byte = __unsigned__ ShortInt;
> VAR
>   AVar : Integer;
>   ASmallVar : Byte;
> BEGIN
>   ASmallVar := BytePtr(AVar)^;
> END.
> 
> Something like that...

Your program compiles well, if you add `Type BytePtr = ^Byte'.
(But it crashes at run-time because you are accessing an uninitialized
pointer variable.)

> What I meant was type casting using custom types, not with built-in or
> pre-defined types. If it already does this, sorry again :}

It already does. ;-)

    Peter

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