Re: variable type cast

Adriaan van Os wrote:
>
> Jay Michael wrote:
>>
>> gpc version 20070904, based on gcc-3.4.5 (mingw special)
>>       Given
>>           type INT16  = INTEGER  attribute( size=16 ) ;
>>           type WORD16 = Cardinal attribute( size=16 ) ;
>>           var i16 : INT16 ;
>>           var w16 : WORD16 ;
>> why does
>>           WORD16(I16) := W16 ;
>> produce "error: invalid lvalue in assignment"?
> 
> A bug in the compiler. GPC is too picky when it comes to typecasts.

     Do you have any idea why this case is rejected?

     The compiler accepted

          type winbool = boolean attribute( size = 32 ) ;
          var i : integer ;
          var wb : winbool ;

          integer(wb) := 1024 ;
          integer(wb) := -1 ;
          integer(wb) := i ;

I thought BOOLEAN was an enumeration type.  I thought an enumeration type was a second cousin to an unsigned integer.  So I thought the only real difference in my case was that I was using 16-bit integers.

     I was prepared for the compiler to accept the code and insist on generating range checks that I don't want.  I'm just puzzled that it wouldn't even accept what looks to me to be just like examples I see posted of "variable type cast".



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