On 2016-03-29 20:19, Sven Barth wrote: > > I usually use LongWord, too,
My preference is based on the fact that they often translate nicely from C code examples and APIs. Plus I know those types and sizes pretty well (at least when in comes to Free Pascal). > but with the recent discovery that in Delphi Luckily Delphi is of no concern to me. :) > I'm inclined to use the (U)IntX (with X being a element of [8, > 16, 32, 64]) types to avoid any confusion and surprises. That's not a bad idea either... I'll look into that for future code. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal