Maybe it's my setting, but I get other warnings, hints even..

var
   p: Pointer;
   e: TEnumType;
begin
   e:= TEnumType(p);

didn't give me any warning (2.4.0, 2.5.1), but it fails (so I am told) on 64bit, [ Illegal type conversion: "^untyped" to "<enumeration type>"]

If untyped^ to enum is forbiden, then why does it even *work* on 32 bit? (not to speak, of not giving a warning?)

Martin

It works in 32 bit because the default size of enumeration types is 4 bytes (also on 64 bit platforms, to avoid problems with reading binary files containing enumeration types), and explicitly type casting one type to another type of the same size is always allowed.

Jonas

ah yes, I see, so a warning would upset many people using other 64bit unsave code....
My initial confusion was when I saw the error message => I thought the problem was because it was untyped (and it was untyped in 32 bit too

Maybe at some point a switch -w#### some way to enable warnings for code that isn't 64/32 compatible?

Martin