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

[Dmitry Boyarintsev]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Michael Van Canneyt <
michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

>
> Which is quite confusing and a really bad decision.
> Basic integer types should not depend on the OS. On the CPU, yes.
>
> I guess they tried to make iOS platform a selling point and be more
C-like.
Just to remember that Strings are zero-based there, by default.

I believe this came with anticipation that the platform will not use (much)
of existing code base.

thanks,
Dmitry
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