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

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:

> Moreover since shorter types are not always faster, I think it is better to
> forget all this, and in new code use INTEGER for the variable types, where
> range doesn't matter (much) and (u)int<xx> for the rest.

Seems eminently sensible to me.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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