[fpc-pascal] Bug in FPC 3.0.0 (was: Bug in FPC 3.0.0?)

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk
Tue Feb 23 15:13:50 CET 2016


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2016-02-23 10:54, Serguei TARASSOV wrote:
>> I see, but *it's not my code*, its a code of the big third-party framework
>> that is working well with all version of Delphi/C++ builder and Lazarus 1.x
>> with FPC 2.6.4.
> 
> Well, now it doesn't work with FPC 3.0. ;-)
> 
> 
>> You cannot recommend them to change code.
> 
> Why not. Many 3rd party libraries need to update there code for newer
> Delphi and FPC releases. This is just one of those cases. This is not
> ever limited to the Object Pascal language, it affects any programming
> language.

And the extra typechecks etc. mean that FPC is a bit better than most 
language implementations at catching things like that.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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