Mailing lists / fpc-pascal / 2011-06
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Dear all,
I discovered Free Pascal yesterday and I am working at recompilying my old Turbo Pascal (5.0) files. The first problem (but probably not the last) I encountered is the reading of my old data files (files of record of real) because of the 6 byte coding for real type in Turbo Pascal versus the 8 byte coding in free Pascal. Is there a simple way to fix that? Regards
Alain
Use the real48 type: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/real48.html
The system unit includes overloaded assignment operators so you can directly assign fields of this type to double/extended afterwards.
Jonas