[fpc-pascal] Strange message about mixed signed expression

Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Wed Jan 22 19:00:51 CET 2014


Am 2014-01-22 07:41, schrieb leledumbo:
> Jürgen Hestermann wrote
>> Realy?
>> But why that?
>> It cannot be negative.
>> Using integer instead of unsigned values reduces the possible (positive)
>> range
>> and produces such illogical (to me) compiler warnings.
> Delphi compatibility and maximum data size limitation AFAIK (2 GB).
>

Sigh... all the bad things in FPC crept in from Delphi it seems...

Why did they artifically limit the max number of array elements to 2^31when
it would have been very easy to have a maximum of 2^32 instead?






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