Fix OSX "Data element too large" error

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See http://stackoverflow.com/a/32349608/441757

On OSX this compiles and runs/works in the http://github.com/whatwg/html build as expected without any errors or additional/unexpected warnings—both without the -Px86_64 specified, and with it specified.

Would be good to test it on other platforms.

Despite what Marco says at http://stackoverflow.com/a/32349608/441757 about disabling runtime (range) checks in the source in order to make this work, in my testing in my environment at least, it doesn’t require that. But if needed I can add the pragmas (or whatever Pascal calls them) to turn off/on the range checks at the appropriate place in the code.

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See also http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=28588 for the related issue that fpc binary on OS X generates 32-bit code by default.

There is no such thing as a 32 bit or 64 bit "host" on OS X, as even a Mac OS X 10.6 system running a 32 bit Intel kernel can perfectly execute 64 bit applications. It's completely mixed/transparent.

The "fpc" binary on OS X always has and for the foreseeable future always will generate 32 bit code by default (both on Intel and PowerPC systems). If you want 64 bit code, use "fpc -Px86_64" or ppcx64.

[Hixie]

Yeah, using 0..0 should be fine.

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