Hi Michael, Do you think it is worth mention the information listed below in the FPC Language Reference? I made DocView annotations in my local ref.inf document, but it might be useful to others as well, hence my thought of adding it to the official docs.
At first glance, I couldn't see that the 2.4.0 ref.pdf mentions this info. It does mention some times are processor dependant, but it doesn't make it as clear as below. Please correct me if I am wrong. Op 2010-11-01 16:33, Hans-Peter Diettrich het geskryf: >> >> FPC has Extended and it's rang is 19-20 significant digits with range: >> 1.9E-4932 – 1.1E4932 >> It's size is 10 bytes. > > AFAIK this type is not available on x64 architecture, and the use of the > FPU is discouraged as well - has somebody a reference to this strange > change? Are 128 bit reals available now, as a replacement? > > That's why a x64 system even cannot cross-compile for i386 (and other) > targets, without using an FPU emulator. ...and... Op 2010-11-01 14:23, Jonas Maebe het geskryf: >> My question was more: Is Extended usable/enabled on Win64 or is >> it Extended=Double as well? > > Extended = double on Win64 in FPC as well. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net:8080/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
