Re[2]: [fpc-pascal] Turbo Pascal/legacy data file issue.

2005-09-21 Thread Ivan Shikhalev
> The 6 byte real isn't supported by fpc because it isn't handled by the > fpu and thus deadly slow. For maybe 12 years, every new PC has an fpu. AFAIK, FPC 2.0 supports the Real48 type... Isn't it? ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Turbo Pascal/legacy data file issue.

2005-09-21 Thread Arne Hanssen
Thus spoke Lowell C. Savage ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > At 12:56 PM 9-19-05, Lowell C. Savage wrote: > >Has anyone come up with a set of routines for converting between Turbo > >Pascal's 6-byte "real" format and FPC's real number format? > > Well, I found a "Real2Double" function in the System unit t