Am 30.03.2016 um 03:06 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: > Thanks Marco, interesting history lesson. ;-) > > On 2016-03-29 22:16, Marco van de Voort wrote: >> Moreover since shorter types are not always faster, I think it is better to >> forget all this, and in new code use INTEGER for the variable types, where >> range doesn't matter (much) and (u)int<xx> for the rest. > > I already tend to use Integer for most code, but the code I'm currently > working on has an extensive amount of record structures used to read a > complex binary data file. The documentation for the data file is > primarily in C
In this case, you should probably use the types from the ctypes unit. > and uses types like SHORT, USHORT, LONG etc. These > translated easily to the SmallInt, Word, LongWord etc types, _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
