[fpc-pascal] Power operator fails in ordinal range definition
Adriaan van Os
adriaan at adriaan.biz
Thu Nov 14 08:07:13 CET 2024
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
>
> On Nov 14, 2024 at 1:53:17 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org
> <mailto:fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>> wrote:
>> The **-operator is not *implemented* by the compiler. It's provided
>> through the Math unit. Thus you can't use it in constant declarations.
>
> Why is that? That means you can do powers in types or constants right?
Only a limited numbers of functions are implemented as compile-time functions. This is so in every
compiler.
Regards,
Adriaan
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