Int64 and QWord not ordinal types?

[marcov]

Note that afaik is a limitation stemming from the Borland Pascal FOR loop.  Classic Pascal did afaik allow regvars larger than register size.

I guess it simply makes optimizing FOR harder (more cases) for little added benefit.

[Thaddy]

Nope. And Yes. The P-compilers (some of them) allowed that, but they are just that: P-compilers, geared towards everything being better in the past.

Try running P5...

[marcov]

Nope. And Yes. The P-compilers (some of them) allowed that, but they are just that: P-compilers, geared towards everything being better in the past.

Try running P5...

P compilers are not the only non Borland derived compilers. I'm talking about eighties mainframe and minicomputer pascal compilers.

[Thaddy]

So basically when I was teaching Pascal at university? UCSD? 
Come on Marco, you know where I am coming from. You were 10 or eleven.
And I just left the - obligatory- army service.

My world with Pascal started with UCSD on Apple, hence the reference to P...

Of course you are right about some real compilers at the time, I never saw them.
And WFW and the likes are luxury versions of the dos extenders...

[marcov]

So basically when I was teaching Pascal at university? UCSD? 
Come on Marco, you know where I am coming from. You were 10 or eleven.
And I just left the - obligatory- army service.

Dodged that, but I did went through the check-up.

My world with Pascal started with UCSD on Apple, hence the reference to P...

That it is all that you know as non-borland Psacal,  doesn't excuse you dismissing the rest.