[fpc-devel] 3.0.4 and Windows 64

[Sven Barth]

Ozz Nixon <ozznixon at gmail.com> schrieb am So., 30. Sep. 2018, 17:18:

> A few years ago I acquired IP rights to Halcyon (xBase for Delphi/FPC).
> For years, I have not had an issue, today, I am recompiling the suite (zero
> code changes) - 3.0.4 Linux - no problems, 3.0.4 Mac - no problems.
> However, 3.0.4 Windows - I am getting:
>
> Halcyon6SQL.pas(1407,41) Error: Can't determine which overloaded function
> to call
> Halcyon6SQL.pas(1752,34) Error: Can't determine which overloaded function
> to call
> Halcyon6SQL.pas(2413) Fatal: There were 2 errors compiling module, stopping
> Fatal: Compilation aborted
>
> Code is basically doing:
>
>    Int64 := trunc(variant);
>
> had to change to type cast:
>
>    Int64 := trunc(Extended(variant));
>
> the there error I am getting, code is basically doing:
>
>    comp := double*10000;
>
> Halcyon6DBF.pas(2123,33) Error: Incompatible types: got "Double" expected
> "Int64"
>
> This last one, I am not sure what the compiler is expecting, and why only
> on the Windows platform?
>

That's because on Win64 the Extended type is not available. There Extended
is an alias to Double (explaining the first error) and Comp is an alias to
Int64.

Regards,
Sven

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