[fpc-pascal]QWord vs. function Abs
Peter Vreman
peter at freepascal.org
Wed Aug 20 16:56:22 CEST 2003
> > 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".
The problem is that there is a abs(int64) and abs(cardinal) and it can't
decide which to take. An abs(qword) needs to be added
Peter
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