min() function behavior inconsistent

[jamie]

I just created that function in old DELPHI 3.0 and 10 which already has all the overloads etc.

 All the constant translations work as they should.

 The mind set of some as how this should work is either flawed or the code is not fixable for some reason?

  I kind of wish they would work on this because it would be very helpful in debugging code.

   oh well, what can you expect for free! I would say a lot of the DEV's are getting to old for this!

[dsiders]

About type-safety and implicit type conversion:

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. var
2.     b: byte;
3.     c: char;
4.     d: double;
5.     s: single;
6. . . .
7.  
8.     b := c;  // is not compiled
9.     b := byte(c);  // is compiled
10.     c := b;   // is not compiled
11.     c := char(b);  // is compiled
12.     d := s;  // is compiled
13.     d := double(s);  // is not compiled
14.     s := d;  // is compiled
15.     s := single(d);  // is not compiled

Isn't this a mess? 

Did you attach it as a test case to a bug report?

[jamie]

I just checked D, those are all valid.

[han]

My initial problem was already reported one year ago as an issue:

https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/39729

[tetrastes]

Did you attach it as a test case to a bug report?

No, I think it's not related to the choose of overloaded functions.