<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mailinglists@geldenhuys.co.uk" target="_blank">mailinglists@geldenhuys.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
So why does the Object Pascal language have a Cardinal type? Why<br>
couldn't LongWord be used instead?<br></blockquote></div>In Delphi world LongWord is 64-bit on 64-bit iOS platform and it is 32-bit on 64-bit Windows platform.<br><br><a href="http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE8/en/What's_New#Changes_in_LongInt_and_LongWord_Size_for_64-bit_iOS_Platforms">http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE8/en/What's_New#Changes_in_LongInt_and_LongWord_Size_for_64-bit_iOS_Platforms</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Who know what it would be for future Linux 64 target?!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thus using LongWord as 32-bit for Delphi is quite volatile.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cardinal is instead always 32-bit<br><a href="http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE8/en/System.Cardinal">http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE8/en/System.Cardinal</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra">thanks,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Dmitry<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>