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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Unchecked conversion of arrays?
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:34:06 +0000 (UTC)
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Wojtek Narczynski <wojtek@power.com.pl> wrote:
:> I'm thinking Unchecked Conversion won't be reliable, because 
:> if for example the byte array is packed and Wide String is not, then (on 
:> a 32-bit machine) I'll get two bytes of garbage between every two bytes 
:> of character data.
 
 
: Unchecked_Conversion will check sizes for you, so I don't think you
: need to worry about garbage.

Maybe this article is helpful here:
 http://www.adapower.com/lang/accessmem.html
 
: You do need to remember about endian-ness, though.


-- Georg