[fpc-pascal] History of the Cardinal data type?

[Dmitry Boyarintsev]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <
mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:

> So why does the Object Pascal language have a Cardinal type? Why
> couldn't LongWord be used instead?
>
In Delphi world LongWord is 64-bit on 64-bit iOS platform and it is 32-bit
on 64-bit Windows platform.

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE8/en/What's_New#Changes_in_LongInt_and_LongWord_Size_for_64-bit_iOS_Platforms

Who know what it would be for future Linux 64 target?!
Thus using LongWord as 32-bit for Delphi is quite volatile.

Cardinal is instead always 32-bit
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE8/en/System.Cardinal

thanks,
Dmitry
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