Am 30.03.2016 10:37 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys" < mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk>: > > At that time word size might vary dramatically from system to system ( > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture) ) > > Interesting. I never knew Word was platform dependant. I see even for > ARMv1, ARMv6 and ARMv8 the size of Word changes.
One needs to differentiate here. In the contexts of CPUs a Word usually means the native register width. The "Word" in Pascal is merely the name of a type. While it might have been originally intended to match the CPU's Word that got lost with Borland's introduction of 32-bit Pascal. > Does FPC follow that platform rule, or does FPC always define Word as > 16-bits? [sorry I don't have a ARM device to test on at the moment] > If Word size does changes in FPC (for example between x86 & ARMv6), then > I have quite a bit of code to fix up. Word is 16-bit in FPC. Regards, Sven
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