[fpc-devel] New language idea: Unified types(assignmentsize-compatible types).

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Wed Jun 22 08:20:07 CEST 2011


Am 22.06.2011 00:52, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
> Sven Barth schrieb:
>> On 21.06.2011 13:09, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>>> BTW I don't know of *any* language that changed "long" integers to 64
>>> bits on 64 bit platforms.
>>
>> Aehm... C did that basically everywhere except on Windows:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#Specific_C-language_data_models
>
> Hmmm, looks as if my memory failed :-(
>
> Most probably I confused int and long, where some people argued that
> *int* should have the native register size, i.e. 64 bits on 64 bit systems.
>
> Thanks for the correction :-)

You are welcome. :)

Regards,
Sven



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