On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:04:12 +0100 Jonas Maebe <jo...@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 _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
