Re: QC Report on Swap Function

Kristofer Skaug wrote: 
Lars wrote:

True but why no have a swap there is working on 4 byte variables ?
For the next version of delphi we can make some new functions for
borland.


A truly useful family of swapping functions should include ByteSwap16,-24,-32,-48,-64
I've long ago "rolled my own" for all of the above, but better and faster implementations are always welcome!

Byte-swapping functions should IMO not be overloaded, as the specific data representation is inherently important; so the programmer should be explicit about the exact swap being done. Anyway, the compiler couldn't distinguish between 24 and 32 bit input, or 48 and 64 bit input, for that matter.


Borland should remove such old stuff left from TP days
(like Real48, ...)


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