According to Orlando Llanes:

I think that there should be a compiler directive to generate code, or maybe typecasting should be implemented, in case someone writes data from a 32-bit word to prevent it from being read into a 16-bit word. I like Borland Style Type-Casting because it's logical, for example: [...]

Type casting *is* implemented. Peter Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201] maintainer GNU Pascal [970510] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]