Re: [Freedos-devel] FreePascal near to far pointer conversion

2023-11-10 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
> > I believe int64 was originally from Delphi. (Isn't there also "long > long" support in OpenWatcom via "-za99“?) Hello Rugxulo, Yes, Watcom C supports 64-bit integer arithmetic, in contrast to Turbo C 3.1, which to my knowledge does not, but silently interprets „long long x“ as „long x“, yi

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreePascal near to far pointer conversion

2023-11-10 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Hello Hippo, thanks for the hint. I have a copy of Borland Pascal 7 inherited from my father. In fact I think I have learned programming with it when I was a kid, or with a previous version. Fascinating piece of software. But I prefer to build open tools with open tools :-) Greetings, Bernd