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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I reported it here:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=36065">https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=36065</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>James<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>>Actually, the original code used two VARs, not typed CONST. One VAR was initialized and one was not. I think this is a bug and should be fixed.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>>As Jonas already pointed out:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>>"var i : longint = 0;" is internally handled using the same code path as <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>>"const i : longint = 0", and typed constants cannot be used as counter <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>>variables. This is indeed probably a bug.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>>---- On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:40:57 -0400 <b><<a href="mailto:scoxbike@shaw.ca" target="_blank">scoxbike@shaw.ca</a>></b> wrote ----<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 5.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>>Yes, off topic. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>>The initial poster's code had the loop variable declared as an initialized constant. Not as a true variable. No FPC in hand, I can't test if setting 'assignable typed >constants = true' would permit the use of an initialized typed constant or not. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>