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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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
seem
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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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
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 typ
Comp is Int64 div 1.
Thanks for the explanation Mathias!
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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 I
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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