On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Bart wrote:
Hi,
I tried using an Int64 as a loop variable in a for loop.
The compiler complained that it was not an ordinal type.
This struck me as odd.
The docs indeed say Int64 and Word are not true ordinal types, but
they seem to fit the definition given in the same do
On 1/5/13, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> Because they don't fit in 32 bits.
Which (to me) raises the question: why do "true ordinal" values have
to fit in 32 bits?
Bart
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Am 06.01.2013 00:34, schrieb Bart:
> On 1/5/13, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
>> Because they don't fit in 32 bits.
>
> Which (to me) raises the question: why do "true ordinal" values have
> to fit in 32 bits?
Because operations like array accesses require that they fit into one
register.
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