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From: derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: veteran TP programmers, i have a question
Message-ID: <722@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 26 Apr 91 10:58:08 GMT
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amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (alan mead) writes:

>Prior to V4.0 of Turbo Pascal, how was unsigned word arithmatic 
>handled?  Wasn't there a trick to use type INTEGER?  I need to
>do unsigned double word arithmatic and I'd like to use LONGINT
>(or some other clean and sure method).

>Thanks very much.

>-alan mead : amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu

Isn't there an unsigned double in the IEEE set? Check it out? If so,
just enable the IEEE arithmetic (I forget the flag - never use it myself)
and your problems should be solved.

Best Regards, Derek Carr
DEREK@DTS.INE.PHILIPS.NL           Philips I&E TQV-5 Eindhoven, The Netherlands 
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