[fpc-pascal] History of the Cardinal data type?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <
> mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> So why does the Object Pascal language have a Cardinal type? Why
>> couldn't LongWord be used instead?
>>
> In Delphi world LongWord is 64-bit on 64-bit iOS platform and it is 32-bit
> on 64-bit Windows platform.

Which is quite confusing and a really bad decision.
Basic integer types should not depend on the OS. On the CPU, yes.

Michael.