[fpc-pascal] Enum RTTI

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Thu Nov 5 11:27:46 CET 2009


On 05 Nov 2009, at 11:10, Wolfram Kläger wrote:

> maybe you want to try:
>
> uses
>  typinfo;
>
> // implementation
>
> function Str(const AEnum : TEnum) : String; overload;
> begin
>  Result := GetEnumName(TypeInfo(TEnum), ord(AEnum));
> end;
>
> I usually declare one such overload per enum type. If you are using  
> sysutils.Str, you have to avoid conflicts by chosing a different  
> function name, e.g. EnumStr.

Actually, as of FPC 2.4.0 str() is also supported for enum types (so  
in this case you don't need the writestr I mentioned earlier). It  
crashes if you pass an invalid enum value though, and there are next  
to no tests for this functionality so it may also contain other bugs.


Jonas


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