http://dn.codegear.com/article/23008 2008-11-19T05:22:20-08:00 David Glover http://threads.codegear.com/threads/threads.exe/userall?commentid=29472 http://threads.codegear.com/threads/threads.exe/view?commentid=29472 2001-07-19T17:57:58-07:00 2001-07-19T17:57:58-07:00

Variable alignment problems in record type.

Thanks for both pieces of advice. My problem involved both the alignment option and the bug at the same time. The problem I had involved 3 real48 fields defined on one line in the middle of a record, but the misalignment was only 4 bytes, completly disguising it as an alignment problem (where you would expect n bytes per field). Fixing the alignment option made all the difference. Greg Ostrom http://threads.codegear.com/threads/threads.exe/userall?commentid=27633 http://threads.codegear.com/threads/threads.exe/view?commentid=27633 2001-01-21T05:12:35-08:00 2001-01-21T05:12:35-08:00

Variable alignment problems in record type.

This seems to be a major problem as I am unable to access previously written data files. I am having problems with string types. Specifically a string of type string[8] was padded with 3 extra bytes in Delphi IV and is now padded with 7 extra bytes. Simply doing a packed record type with a string type change won't work either as my other variables were not packed. I may have to write special utilities to rewrite all my files (500 G bytes).Frustrating to say the least.