[fpc-pascal] Binary code generated for Integer and PtrInt

[Jonas Maebe]

On 02/01/15 22:12, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 02.01.2015 um 21:34 schrieb Jonas Maebe:
>> > And except for AArch64, where 32 bit will, in principle, also be more
>> > efficient than 64 bit in all cases. It can even use the lower 8/16/32
>> > bit of a register as index in a memory references and sign/zero-extend +
>> > optionally multiply it with the access size.
> But integer operations are done always on 64 bit in FPC?

If you have

var
  l: longint;
  a: array of word;
begin
  a[l]:= ...
end

then the index will still be a longint.


Jonas