[fpc-pascal] Floating point question

[Adriaan van Os]

Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal wrote:
> On 03/02/2024 18:42, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> Constants are also evaluated wrong,you don’t know what that constant 
>> is going to be used for, so all steps of evaluating a constant MUST be 
>> done in extended by the compiler, or the answer is just wrong.
> 
> See 
> https://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.2.0#Floating_point_constants 
> and https://www.freepascal.org/daily/doc/prog/progsu19.html

I think this discussion shows that the 2.2 compiler change was a bad idea (for modes other than 
Delphi).

Regards,

Adriaan van Os