[fpc-pascal] OT Turbo Pascal REAL type WAS: Documentation, syntax diagrams

2014-01-08 Thread johanns
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 09:01:34PM +0100, Sven Barth wrote: On 08.01.2014 19:40, Howard Page-Clark wrote: On 08/01/2014 18:16, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: Today I found this type definition in some FreePascal sources: TypeReal =type Double; I wondered what the second “type” keyword means here

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT Turbo Pascal REAL type WAS: Documentation, syntax diagrams

2014-01-08 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 09 Jan 2014, at 00:17, joha...@nacs.net wrote: Is there any way to get support in Free Pascal for the old six byte REAL type that was provided by the old Borland DOS Turbo Pascal compilers? The only support we have is a routine to convert a TP-style real to double: