[fpc-devel] Abs(Variant) unexpected result

[Jonas Maebe]

On 25/02/18 15:59, Bart wrote:
> I don't know how Delphi behaves, but the official Delphi docs state
> that Abs() only has overloads for floats, integer and int64.
> If their compiler behaves as the docs say, Abs(Variant) would be a syntax error.

No, because variant can be implicitly converted to all of those types 
and there are different (undocumented by Embarcadero) overload selection 
priorities for each of those types.


Jonas