Re: [fpc-devel] Extended($FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF) = -1?

2014-03-01 Thread Ewald
On 01 Mar 2014, at 03:06, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Numerical constants, where the sign matters, should only be encoded in decimal. The other formats (hex,oct,bin...) are intended for use with binary values, where the bit pattern is important. Then the code compiles correctly on any

Re: [fpc-devel] Extended($FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF) = -1?

2014-03-01 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 01 Mar 2014, at 01:19, Ewald wrote: On 28 Feb 2014, at 23:43, Jonas Maebe wrote: Because of the (unPascalish) decision to have an unsigned version of the largest supported integer type, there are indeed some cases that require decisions to define the behaviour That is perfectly