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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 LongInt. On some platforms it is 64 bits wide and thus has a range of -9223372036854775808 .. 9223372036854775807.

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

Conforming to

LongestInt is a GNU Pascal extension.

Example

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

See also

Integer Types, Subrange Types.