10 Sep
2006
10 Sep
'06
2:45 p.m.
On 10 Sep 2006, at 13:11, CBFalconer wrote:
I don't understand why there is a problem. Packed array components are not directly accessible in any case, they have to be processed through the standard procedures pack and unpack anyhow.
Packed array components are directly accessible by indexing the packed array like a regular array (at least in both GPC and FPC). And I think it's even required for ISO Pascal since otherwise you would not be able to access the individual characters of a string by indexing strings, as I understand it (since their contents consists of a packed array of char).
Jonas