Re: [fpc-pascal] Comp type

[greim]

By the way there was a bug in fpc 3.0.
I am not sure if it is fixed yet.
Dividing a comp number by any other number gives wrong results.
Please see my posting from 29.06.2016

Markus
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Re: [fpc-pascal] Comp type

[Tony Whyman]

Thanks for the history. Comp has always puzzled me before, especially 
with these two functions from the RTL


function MSecsToTimeStamp(MSecs: Comp): TTimeStamp;
function TimeStampToMSecs(const TimeStamp: TTimeStamp): comp;

I assume that these have come down from Turbo Pascal - but it still 
seems odd that milliseconds is represented by a "real" type.


Tony Whyman


On 10/01/18 08:04, Jonas Maebe wrote:

Mattias Gaertner wrote:

Comp is Int64 div 1.

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.


Jonas
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Re: [fpc-pascal] Comp type

[greim]

AFAIK there is a small difference between comp and int64

COMP is 63bit + sign bit

int64 is 2s complement.

I hope I am right here.

Markus


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Re: [fpc-pascal] Comp type

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:04:12 +0100
Jonas Maebe  wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > Comp is Int64 div 1.  
> 
> 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
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Re: [fpc-pascal] Comp type

[Jonas Maebe]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> Comp is Int64 div 1.

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.


Jonas
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Re: [fpc-pascal] Comp type

[Darius Blaszyk]

Comp is Int64 div 1.


Thanks for the explanation Mathias!
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Re: [fpc-pascal] Comp type

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:58:01 +0100
Darius Blaszyk  wrote:

> By accident I noticed the comp type for the first time. It's an Int64
> but is considered to be a real type. Just out of curiosity, what is the
> use case of such a type, or is this just implemented for compatibility
> reasons?

Comp is Int64 div 1. So it is a real, but not a float.
This has some advantages computing things like money.
For example it can represent numbers like 0.3 exactly, which is
not possible with double.
Also computing integers is often faster than doubles.

Mattias
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[fpc-pascal] Comp type

[Darius Blaszyk]

By accident I noticed the comp type for the first time. It's an Int64
but is considered to be a real type. Just out of curiosity, what is the
use case of such a type, or is this just implemented for compatibility
reasons?

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