XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 02/01/2026 11:54, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 1/2/26 06:27, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2026-01-02 11:59, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >>> On 01/01/2026 23:54, Waldek Hebisch wrote:   
   >>>> If you really needed 100 variant record in Turbo Pascal,   
   >>>> then you needed 100 unions in C.   
   >>>   
   >>> No. You simply used *casting* .   
   >>>   
   >>> k=*(int *)(buffer +4) etc etc.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Borland Pascal also had typecasting.   
   >>   
   >> BYTE(MyChar)   
   >   
   >    Yep. TP was a slight 'super-set' of Wirth Pascal.   
   >    Cleaned up a few lackings. Wirth, though practical,   
   >    was still kind of an 'academic' and didn't always   
   >    address typical real-world problems. Easy type-casts   
   >    made things a LOT better.   
   >   
   How did it handle pointers...?   
      
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