[fpc-devel]about the bug 2364

[Peter Vreman]

> Hello Peter,
>
> Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:02:59 PM, you wrote:
>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have some ideas about the bug #2363 (Unfixed Error export problem).
>
>>> Second way: storing exported items info in PPU.
>
> PV> That is possible. It needs a new ppuentry that will contain the
> following
> PV> items per export:
>
> PV> - procdef reference
> PV> - exported name
> PV> - exported index
>
> May be it is possible to avoid adding new entries. I looked a
> little... Two kinds of statements can be exported:
> procedures/functions and (on some platforms) variables.
>
> tvarsym contains a field varoptions that is a set of tvaroption.
> Tvaroption already has vo_is_exported as a possible value.
>
> tprocsym has a field is_global : boolean (unfortunately, only under
> {$ifdef GDB}). This field could be easily changed to byte with 3
> possible values:  - local, 1 - global, 2 - global and exported. That
> could cause no changes in binary PPU structure and no changes in other
> parts of compiler where this field is already used (only a typecast byte
> to
> boolean is needed). Am I right?

That is not possible. Because the exports can be in a different unit. You
can't change fields in ppu entries that are in other units.