[Lazarus] Delphi incompatibility - hard cast

[Marco van de Voort]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 09:55:25PM -0500, Bob Hofman wrote:
> Both a syntax check and a build did not throw any errors but if I attempted
> to run the application it would error out with an access violation as soon
> as it got to the above assignment.

> I think that FPC is just catching it at compile time while Delphi is not.

Note that there is also a runtime check available for this in FPC. It is
called -CR and very, very useful.