Re: [fpc-pascal] Platform Dependent Integer Types

2017-04-07 Thread African Wild Dog
2017-04-07 12:33 GMT-03:00 Michael Van Canneyt : > > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, African Wild Dog wrote: > > 2017-04-07 12:10 GMT-03:00 Michael Van Canneyt : >> >> >>> NativeInt and NativeUInt are indeed provided for Delphi compatibility. >>> >>> Which integer type to chose : That depends. What do you w

Re: [fpc-pascal] Platform Dependent Integer Types

2017-04-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, African Wild Dog wrote: 2017-04-07 12:10 GMT-03:00 Michael Van Canneyt : NativeInt and NativeUInt are indeed provided for Delphi compatibility. Which integer type to chose : That depends. What do you want to achieve exactly ? In Delphi, if i want an integer type whic

Re: [fpc-pascal] Platform Dependent Integer Types

2017-04-07 Thread African Wild Dog
2017-04-07 12:10 GMT-03:00 Michael Van Canneyt : > > NativeInt and NativeUInt are indeed provided for Delphi compatibility. > > Which integer type to chose : That depends. What do you want to achieve > exactly ? > > In Delphi, if i want an integer type which depends on the target platform (32 or 6

Re: [fpc-pascal] Platform Dependent Integer Types

2017-04-07 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, African Wild Dog said: > > > http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Internal_Data_Formats_(Delphi)#Platform-Independent_Signed_Integer_Types > . > As Marco have pointed out, in Windows the Delphi's LongInt type is always > 32-bits. On other platforms is platform

Re: [fpc-pascal] Platform Dependent Integer Types

2017-04-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, African Wild Dog wrote: 2017-04-06 18:50 GMT-03:00 Mattias Gaertner : Why do you think that Delphi's longint has 64bits anywhere? Delphi's NativeInt is 32 or 64bit depending on platform. http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Internal_Data_Formats_(Delphi)#P

Re: [fpc-pascal] Platform Dependent Integer Types

2017-04-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, African Wild Dog wrote: 2017-04-07 11:15 GMT-03:00 Marco van de Voort : In our previous episode, African Wild Dog said: Which integer types have their size dependent on platform? E.g. in Delphi, LongInt can 32 or 64 bits depending on the platform. In Delphi they retroa

Re: [fpc-pascal] Platform Dependent Integer Types

2017-04-07 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, African Wild Dog said: > > On FPC it is always 32-bit. Ptrint and ptruint scale with pointer size, and > > integer depends on compilation mode, 16 or 32-bit. > > > So, is the size of "Integer" type dependent on the compilation mode? Yes. > (Delphi is always 32 bits) In

Re: [fpc-pascal] Platform Dependent Integer Types

2017-04-07 Thread African Wild Dog
2017-04-06 18:50 GMT-03:00 Mattias Gaertner : > Why do you think that Delphi's longint has 64bits anywhere? > Delphi's NativeInt is 32 or 64bit depending on platform. > > http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Internal_Data_Formats_(Delphi)#Platform-Independent_Signed_Integer_Types . As

Re: [fpc-pascal] Platform Dependent Integer Types

2017-04-07 Thread African Wild Dog
2017-04-07 11:15 GMT-03:00 Marco van de Voort : > In our previous episode, African Wild Dog said: > > Which integer types have their size dependent on platform? > > E.g. in Delphi, LongInt can 32 or 64 bits depending on the platform. > > In Delphi they retroactively equated longint to C long, bein

Re: [fpc-pascal] Platform Dependent Integer Types

2017-04-07 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, African Wild Dog said: > Which integer types have their size dependent on platform? > E.g. in Delphi, LongInt can 32 or 64 bits depending on the platform. In Delphi they retroactively equated longint to C long, being 32-bit on 64-bits windows and 64-bit on Linux. The Delph