[fpc-devel] Documentation on Real types

[Michael Van Canneyt]

Well, the CTypes unit is documented, so I see no need to add this ?

You should not use native pascal types when translating, always use the
types from the ctypes unit. That's its purpose, after all.

Michael.

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Some other annotations I have in my ref.inf document is
> C Types, and how they map to Object Pascal types. Maybe this would be
> useful too in the official docs - after all, many developers translate/port
> C headers or libraries to FPC. If it will be useful to add to the docs, I'm
> not 100% sure if this must go in the Lang Ref or RTL docs (eg: System or
> CTypes units).
>
> Some alias types I have made notes about:
>
> DWord ->  Cardinal
>
> Long  -\
> clong - -->  LongInt
> cint  -/
>
> Short ->  SmallInt
> Uint  ->  Cardinal
> ULong ->  Cardianl
> Handle -> DWord (Win32); LongInt(Linux)
>
> etc...
>
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
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