[fpc-devel]Another FPC versus Delphi issue

[Jonas Maebe]

On vrijdag, oktober 12, 2001, at 05:36 , KJK::Hyperion wrote:

>> >   a: array [ Integer ] of Integer;
>> [...]
>> > Under Delphi (v5) this gives an compile-time error (Data type too
>> > large:  exceeds 2GB)
>> [...]
>> > It seems to me that fpc should give a compile-time error, rather
>> > than crash.
>> It allocates only 4 bytes for the array.
>
> Why? Isn't Integer a range type?

Yes, but in Delphi integer = longint and this cause the size calculation 
of the array in the compiler to overflow. It's fixed now (the 
calculation is now done with int64's instead of longints).


Jonas