On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Juha Manninen wrote:
FileCreate and FileOpen return THandle with FPC but integer with Delphi2007. Delphi defines THandle as LongWord but for some reason Integer is used instead. With FPC on a 64-bit system THandle is 64- bit unsigned. Question: what is the best way to maintain code that must compile with both FPC and Delphi2007? The obvious solution is to use IFDEF and define a new type, say TMyHandle. FPC's libraries however take care of many platform differences. Is there any better way to solve this?
Shortly said: No. The Delphi API is wrong; It should also return THandle (as that is what Windows CreateFile returns), but probably for historical reasons they still use Integer. With the advent of 64-bit delphi, they could have cleaned up their API, but Alas...
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