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9.141 LongestInt

Synopsis

 
type
  LongestInt = LongInt;  { might get bigger than LongInt someday }

Description

`LongestInt' is GPC's longest-possible signed integer type. Currently, this is the same as section 9.144 LongInt. On most platforms it is 64 bits wide and thus has a range of `-9223372036854775808..9223372036854775807'.

There are lots of other integer types in GPC, see section 8.2.3 Integer Types.

Conforming to

`LongestInt' is a GNU Pascal extension.

Example

 
program LongestIntDemo;
var
  a: LongestInt;
begin
  a := 42;
  WriteLn (a)
end.

See also

section 8.2.3 Integer Types, section 8.2.10.1 Subrange Types.



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