[fpc-devel]Determining overloads between Single and Double

[Peter Vreman]

> Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>
>> On 13 feb 2004, at 22:17, Michalis Kamburelis wrote:
>>
>>> but sometimes it's a pain trying to write code in ObjFpc mode that
>>> should compile under Delphi too
>>
>>
>> In that case, why do you want to use that single(1.0) construct? That
>> won't compile in Delphi either... I'm not sure what you are trying to
>> achieve: writing code that "mostly" compiles under Delphi too? What's
>> the use?
>>
>>
>> Jonas
>>
> I don't *want* to use p(Single(1.0)) construct in that sense that I
> would be happy with using just p(1.0), too. My point was that in FPC in
> Delphi mode I can't use p(1.0) and I can't use p(Single(1.0)) too.

Add a new overload for extended and it compiles also in delphi mode.

Bug report 2129 is the source that single(1.0) typecasts does not work as
expected. A solution can be to do conversion for float constants.