[fpc-devel] Extended($FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF) = -1?

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Ewald schrieb:
> On 28 Feb 2014, at 20:39, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>> All hexadecimal constants are (conceptually) parsed as int64, so
>> this is by design. int64($00000000ffffffff) is not -1.

> By the way, what do you do when you want to port fpc to a one's
> comlement machine (if they still exist)?

Numerical constants, where the sign matters, should only be encoded in 
decimal. The other formats (hex,oct,bin...) are intended for use with 
binary values, where the bit pattern is important. Then the code 
compiles correctly on any kind of machine.

Assumptions about type sizes and encodings can make *application* code 
unportable. E.g. the Extended type doesn't have a guaranteed size and 
binary representation, IIRC it's equivalent to Double on x64.

DoDi