[fpc-pascal] Freepascal Floating Point Issue

[Tomas Hajny]

On Thu, August 24, 2017 22:25, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 8/24/2017 2:18 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
>>
>> Am 23.08.2017 02:16 schrieb "Paul Nance" <pwnance at gmail.com
>> <mailto:pwnance at gmail.com>>:
>> >
>> > Turbo Pascal also had a BCD unit.
>>
>> Free Pascal also has a BCD unit: FmtBCD. It provides a BCD type and
>> operators as well operator overloads.
>>
> And where would such gem be hiding? It's not in neither my Lazarus
> 1.6/FPC 3.02 nor the Lazarus 1.8RC4/FPC 3.04 installs...

Good point... It's in package rtl-objpas. I can see it included in the
standard FPC 3.0.2 installation, but it's missing in 3.0.4 at the moment,
because it got lost in the transition from fpcmake to fpmake apparently.
Fortunately, that should be rather easy to fix. :-)

Tomas