On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:02:35 +0100, Jonas Maebe <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03 Mar 2014, at 17:43, Ewald wrote: >> >> Alright, that I did not know. Thanks for the info. I always assumed >> there was an instruction FULD, but it isn't there apparently. > > Nevertheless, Hans-Peter's statement is wrong. FPC can perfectly convert > any qword value into an extended value. It's not because something cannot > be done using a single instruction, that it cannot be done at all. >
Yes, that is also why I wrote `I guess freepascal must have done this for me`. Nonetheless it is an interesting revelation :-) -- Ewald _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
