[fpc-pascal] Variants and Extended

[Vincent Snijders]

Torsten Bonde Christiansen schreef:
> Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> Note that extended is x86 specific, and windows has been 
>> multi-architecture
>> since the early nineties.
>>   
> 
> Does this also mean that Extended does not work on MAC PowerPC?
> 

It compiles, but it is only 64 bits, like a double.

type
   extended = double;

You can check this at compile time by doing
{$IFDEF FPC_HAS_TYPE_EXTENDED}

Vincent