Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Strings - the fun part [very off-topic]

2013-01-08 Thread Jy V
> Everytime I read anything about strings here, this comes into my mind: > http://www.rigsofrods.com/entries/155-the-chaos-of-character-encodings > > Strings seem to be a general problem for numeric machines :D > I like the idea to try to represent visually (using a drawing) the implications of a

Re: [fpc-devel] Question about hint in bool eval / Mixing signed expressions and longwords gives a 64bit result

2013-01-08 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 08 Jan 2013, at 09:46, Martin wrote: I know it's a hint. And I know that implies it may mean noting, and yet is still present Just trying to understand. if I did "int-longword" (same for addition and reverse order) then I need a int64 to hold the result. --- 1) Yet on my 32 bit Win

[fpc-devel] Question about hint in bool eval / Mixing signed expressions and longwords gives a 64bit result

2013-01-08 Thread Martin
I know it's a hint. And I know that implies it may mean noting, and yet is still present Just trying to understand. if I did "int-longword" (same for addition and reverse order) then I need a int64 to hold the result. --- 1) Yet on my 32 bit Win vista (testing with 2.7.1 [2012/12/09] for

Re: [fpc-devel] Re: Strings - the fun part [very off-topic]

2013-01-08 Thread Michael Schnell
UNIcode = it needs several years of study at the UNIversity to use it. -Michael;-) ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel