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From: Marco van de Voort
Subject: PACKED ARRAYS (was Re: Has class become a reserved word?)
Date: 15 Mar 2001, 01:05:40

> 
> That is the PACKED ARRAY of 0..255 occupied 4 bytes under the old version 
> and now occupies 16 bytes. Whilst I clearlyu have a workaround by
> switching from 0..255 to byte, that behaviour doesn't seem right to me.

0..255 is an enumeration, of the base type, which is a 32-bits integer on a
32-bit computer/compiler (at least with my limited knowledge of the
standard)

An array of 32-bits values don't need packing, so both are the same

I wouldn't consider this a bug, I think it is a TP incompability however,
though I haven't tested it under TP.

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