Jonas,
Thanks for your response.
Jonas Maebe wrote 14 lines
On vrijdag, mei 30, 2003, at 12:47 Europe/Brussels, Adam Naumowicz
wrote:
> I found it a bit surprising that byte-variable overflow does not raise
> EIntException...
> I'm using FPC 1.0.6 (with -Co on the command line).
Also use -Cr. An overflow and a range check are semantically exactly
the same (you get a value which cannot be represented by a certain
number of bits). However, Borland first introduced range checking that
didn't catch overflows, so when they added overflow check, they made it
a different switch for compatibility's sake. This means that FPC is
also stuck with two switches for catching essentially the same error...
OK, so I understand that EIntOverflow is raised *only* when longint variables capacity is exceeded, and in the case of booleans ERangeError must be checked instead. Is that so?
Another question that I want to ask is why the following primitive sample seems to work as expected but does not produce any output on Solaris (using 1.0.6).
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uses sysutils;
var i,k : Integer;
x:real;
begin
i:=0;
try
x:=k/i;
except
on Edivbyzero do writeln('div');
on Exception do writeln('other');
end;
end.
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BTW, is there any chance that some Solaris binary distro newer than 1.0.6 can be obtained?
I tried to compile it myself but failed as it seems that my compiler (and its RTL) are not sufficient to build the new one.
Best regards,
Adam Naumowicz
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