<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Not to mention that it breaks the strong typing that is central to Pascal's design.<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jun 20, 2011, at 5:16 AM, Paul Dunn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Skybuck Flying <<a href="mailto:skybuck2000@hotmail.com">skybuck2000@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Not a problem, that's what the unified type is for.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It detects "pointer" and "longword" is of different size on 64 bit so then<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it's not allowed ;)<br></blockquote><br>Wouldn't that break your code between platforms quite considerably? I<br>can't see how this would be remotely useful!<br><br>D.<br>_______________________________________________<br>fpc-devel maillist - <a href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel">http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>