On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Tomas Hajny <xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote: > On Fri, November 9, 2012 17:01, ik wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> >> wrote: >>> On 09 Nov 2012, at 16:06, ik wrote: >>> >>> And if I do it without the hash, then it's just a number >>> >>> >>> UCS4Char is in fact just a number, and UCS4String is just a dynamic >>> array of >>> cardinal. UCS4 is not implemented as a complete string type in FPC (or >>> Delphi, for that matter). >> >> Cardinal is a bit problematic type, you mean longword. :) > > Why do you see cardinal as a "problematic type"? At least for FPC it is a > simple alias to longword (and it has actually existed even before longword > in FPC).
At least with Delphi it has unclear what exactly the size of it. And the following code: https://github.com/ik5/fp-msgpack/blob/master/src/msgpack.pas#L528 Used to be with Cardinal (the only difference), and It never acted as expected. The only thing I changed was from cardinal to longword, and it acts as expected. > > Tomas > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
