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

Dmitry Boyarintsev skalogryz.lists at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 17:44:05 CEST 2016


On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <
mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:

> On 2016-03-29 16:17, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:
> > In Delphi world LongWord is 64-bit on 64-bit iOS platform and it is
> 32-bit
> > on 64-bit Windows platform.
>
> So what happened when they introduced Android support? Yet another
> definition or copied one of the others?
>

>From what I can see they currently support 32-bit processors for Android
devices.
(
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Seattle/en/Android_Devices_Supported_for_Application_Development
)
So Cardinal is still 32-bit there.  I'd think it will grow to 64-bit as
soon as arm64 is supported.

thanks,
Dmitry
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