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In a week, Delphi 7 Service Pack 1, or General Update 1, or whatever it would be called, would be released...
Well, at least, that's what I think anyway, given that Anders has already blogged about it here. The most, I think, would be that it would be released in 2 weeks.
Supposedly, it would fixed 100+ bugs, far shorter than John's trial of trying to provide his own “top 200” list of bugs that R&D should look at.
A method to design records so that they're allocated on a specific byte boundary, such as 16 bytes, 512 bytes, 4096 bytes, etc.