[Lazarus] Typecast set to byte in mode OBJFPC

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2014-12-31 um 16:40 schrieb Jürgen Hestermann:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> type FlagType        = (Flag1,Flag2);
>          FlagSetType   = set of FlagType;
> var i : SizeInt;
>       S : FlagSetTyp;
>
> S := [Flag1];
> i := byte(S); // <---- Error "illegal type conversion"
> ---------------------------------------------------------------

I have already found a solution:

i := SizeInt(S);

works (although I don't know why this is accepted but byte(S) is not).