[fpc-pascal]QWord vs. function Abs

[James Mills]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:34:23PM +0200, Lubomir.Cabla at cssz.cz wrote:
> Hallo,
> i'm newbie and maybe making something wrong.
> 
> Small example for go32v2:
> 
> var q1,q2:qword;
> begin
>   q1:=10;
>   q2:=20;
>   writeln(Abs(q1-q2));
> end.

I get runtime 215 with FPC 1.0.6 ...

This probably means that FPC cannot support qwords in the abs function
even though the documentation says "Any numerical type".

Not sure though :)

cheers
James

> 
> With FPC compiler 1.0.10/IDE 0.9.2 i got this error message:
> 
> 'Can't determine which overloaded function to call'
> 
> Any idea ?
> 
> With type INT64,Word it is o.k.
> I think this version 1.0.x doesn't full support type QWord.
> 
> I want try the new version 1.1.x, but under Windows NT/SP6a (czech version)
> is not possible to start \pp\bin\go32v2\fp.exe.
> 
> Lubom?r ?abla
> 
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