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9.138 LongCard

Synopsis

 
type
  LongCard = Cardinal (BitSizeOf (LongInt));

Description

`LongCard' is an unsigned integer type which is longer than `Cardinal'. On most platforms it is 64 bits wide and thus has a range of `0..18446744073709551615'.

`LongCard' in GNU Pascal is compatible to `long long unsigned int' in GNU C.

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

Conforming to

`LongCard' is a GNU Pascal extension.

Example

 
program LongCardDemo;
var
  a: LongCard;
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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