[fpc-devel] Issue with TBits.OpenBit

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri May 23 16:40:25 CEST 2008



On Fri, 23 May 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Vincent Snijders wrote:
> > Sergei Gorelkin schreef:
> > > 1) Typing: TBitArray (classesh.inc line 308) is declared as array of
> > > Cardinal. It means that on 64-bit platforms it will consist of QWord's. 
> > 
> > No, cardinal is 32 bits on a 64 bits platform too.
> 
> Is it???
> Free Pascal documentation - Chapter 3 (Types) in table 3.2 says the following.
> 
> Cardinal:  either word (2 bytes), longword (4 bytes) or qword (8 bytes).

Unfortunately, that was wrong. It's been corrected.

Michael.



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