[fpc-pascal] wiki page confusion with Ordinal to Word conversion

[Ben]

Hi,

http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.0#Byte.2FWord.2FLong.2FQwordbool_types

Based on this wiki description, If a value of Ord(True) is assigned to 
say a Word variable, the value of that Word variable is now -1.  How is 
that possible when the Word type has a valid range of only 0..65535??

Windows / Delphi compatibility or not, this change makes NO sense 
because the new behaviour is a value that is simply out of range for 
Byte, Word, Long and QWord.


Creating a quick test application shows that the 2.4.3 compiler still 
functions correctly. The output of this program is "1" - the expected 
behaviour.

But the wiki comment seem contradictory to that:
   “Assigning true to such variables now sets them to "-1"”

Is that a typo in the wiki?


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program test;

var
   w: word;
   bo: Boolean;
begin
   bo := True;
   w := Ord(bo);
   writeln(w);
end.
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-- 

             Ben.