[fpc-pascal] PtrInt - possible candidate to be marked as deprecated

[Tony Whyman]

It's one I tend to use a lot as it's a nice platform independent way 
scheduling processing in the next cycle round the message loop. The 
problem is not whether or not the parameter should be PtrInt or PtrUint, 
it is currently PtrInt and changing it means a lot of work for any 
application that uses it.

If this were the only instance then maybe the work could be justified - 
but PtrInt is used in about a dozen other places in the Forms module 
alone and throughout the LCL and FCL. For example:

TDataLink.DataEvent(Event: TDataEvent; Info: Ptrint) in the DB Module.

I can understand the argument that says it was a bad idea in the first 
place - but all the work and instability to get rid of it.... "Let 
sleeping PtrInt's lie" to paraphrase an old saying.



On 18/03/15 15:29, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2015-03-18 15:23, Tony Whyman wrote:
>> PtrInt is used in that very useful method TApplication.QueueAsync
>> Call.
> Though I never used the QueueAsync() call myself, but looking at the
> declaration, shouldn't that data type be PtrUInt anyway?  As far as I
> understand Data points to data in memory, which will always be an
> positive (unsigned) value, not so?  Or does Mattias's example apply here
> too.
>
> Regards,
>    - Graeme -
>