[fpc-devel] Important: Call for testing.

[Giulio Bernardi]

> From: ugilio at hotmail.com
> To: fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org
> Subject: RE: [fpc-devel] Important: Call for testing.
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:21:52 +0000
>
>
>> I have noticed another incompatibility with the previous version - the
>> TParser object in parser.inc can now return toWString as one of the
>> possibilities; the previous version returned toString regardless, but
>> offered a wide and normal version of the string. This change breaks
>> lazarus on wide strings. Which should be changed?
>
> toWString was missing, now it's more delphi compatible and you don't have
> to check every character of the widestring (returned with TParser.TokenWi=
deString) to determine if
> the string is really a wide or an ansi string.
> Note that now you still have a normal and wide version of the string  (To=
kenString / TokenWideString) but Token property can be toWString too.
> So the only needed change should be in checking for toWString too when ch=
ecking for toString. Ok, toWString is declared in trunk only, so you should=
 use an ifdef for now. However it will be merged to fixes_2_2 too, so the i=
fdef will be only needed till 2.2.2 is released.
>

Maybe this patch (for lazarus) solves the issue? (warning: lazarus compiles=
 and runs but I didn't test it).

Giulio

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