[fpc-devel] windows shlobj SIGDN longint

[J. Gareth "Kit" Moreton]

Hmmm, that's a little bit difficult.  What happens if you define the 
constants as, say, "SIGDN_FILESYSPATH = longint($80058000);"?

Gareth aka. Kit

On 24/06/2026 21:44, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-devel wrote:
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> On 6/24/26 22:35, J. Gareth "Kit" Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
>> I think it's deliberately designed that way so such codes are 
>> negative numbers in signed 32-bit.
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> I spotted it because code fails to compile with a range check error.
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> Windows docs says these constants are from an enumeration.
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> Mattias
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>> Gareth aka. Kit
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>> On 24/06/2026 20:51, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-devel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Unit shlobj has:
>>>
>>>       SIGDN      = longint;
>>>
>>> But the constants are for example:
>>>
>>> SIGDN_FILESYSPATH               = $80058000;
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe SIGDN must be DWord?
>>>
>>> Mattias
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