Am 22.01.2014 19:00, schrieb Jürgen Hestermann: > > Am 2014-01-22 07:41, schrieb leledumbo: >> Jürgen Hestermann wrote >>> Realy? >>> But why that? >>> It cannot be negative. >>> Using integer instead of unsigned values reduces the possible (positive) >>> range >>> and produces such illogical (to me) compiler warnings. >> Delphi compatibility and maximum data size limitation AFAIK (2 GB). >> > > Sigh... all the bad things in FPC crept in from Delphi it seems...
... which is not true in this case. - The unsigned types are something very unpascalish. - Extended Pascal defines the result of length as integer - Expressions like length(s)-1 are very common and would cause a lot of trouble if length(s) would be unsigned. > > Why did they artifically limit the max number of array elements to 2^31when > it would have been very easy to have a maximum of 2^32 instead? It is even easier to use a 64 bit OS in this case. Even more having a data segment >2 GB might be a problem for 32 Bit OSes. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
