True, but all integers will be converted to 64bits at each call, all
throughout your code which you do not want if you are worried about
efficiency. ANd the integere version existed years before the int64
version... this ensures that old code is not adversely affected.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, 19 August 2002 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG]: 64 bit ints
> Steve:
> surely if you have just the one function
>
> function IntToStr(Value: Int64): string;
>
> and it's not overloaded, then the compiler still won't complain.
>
> That's why I was wondering what I had missed
>
> Trevor
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Peacocke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 4:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: 64 bit ints
>
>
> > No, you are missing nothing. One converts and Int64, the other an
Integer.
> >
> > Stops the compiler complaining that you are using the wrong variable
type.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > At 04:26 pm 17/08/02, you wrote:
> > >I use quite a lot of these in my code, and from time to time need to
> convert
> > >them to striings, so I use IntToStr in SysUtils.
> > >
> > >I've noticed that there are two versions (overloaded) in sysUtils:
> > >
> > >{ IntToStr converts the given value to its decimal string
> representation. }
> > >
> > >function IntToStr(Value: Integer): string; overload;
> > >function IntToStr(Value: Int64): string; overload;
> > >
> > >
> > >and their implementation is
> > >
> > >function IntToStr(Value: Integer): string;
> > >begin
> > > FmtStr(Result, '%d', [Value]);
> > >end;
> > >
> > >function IntToStr(Value: Int64): string;
> > >begin
> > > FmtStr(Result, '%d', [Value]);
> > >end;
> > >
> > >Am I missing something here?, they seem to be identical.
> > >
> > >Confused Trevor
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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