[fpc-devel] Unicode proceedings

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> > like this: I still can't remember which of SmallInt and Short is the 1
> > Byte and the 2 Byte variant. Some type names like "Signed8" and
> > "Unsigned16" would simplyfy this... but I won't go more into that
> > direction now ^^
> 
> For exactly the same reason I have a A5 "cheat sheet" lying on my desk
> for the last two years. :-) It contains all the Object Pascal primitive
> types with their ranges and size in bytes. It also has some C/C++ alias
> types and what they equate to in Object Pascal (eg: DWord -> Cardinal,
> UInt -> Cardinal etc)

This will have to be fixed out of Delphi compatibility. D2009+ defines
(u)int8/16/32/64. I'll see to it in the coming weekend (though it will be
too late for 2.6.0)