[fpc-pascal] Comp type

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:04:12 +0100
Jonas Maebe <jonas at freepascal.org> wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > Comp is Int64 div 10000.  
> 
> No, that is currency. Comp is a plain 64 bit integer. It originally
> comes from Turbo Pascal, which did not have a regular 64 bit integer
> type. The x87 fpu can be used to perform 64 bit integer math though, so
> it was originally a 64 bit integer type whose calculations were
> performed using the fpu.
> 
> In FPC, it's the same on platforms that still use the x87 fpu. On other
> platforms, comp is an alias for the int64 type.

Thanks. Good to know.

I guess I got confused by the 'real' in Darius qeustion.

Mattias