[fpc-devel] extending platform flag request

[Tomas Hajny]

�авоН ��онин wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> I think it's better to implement a string message dispatcher for this
>> instead of adding RTTI (which is already bulky as it is). Do not forget
>> that the widget set is very lazarus specific, and has nothing to do with
>> RTTI or even the OS/CPU platform that the compiler knows.
>>
>> So as far as I'm concerned, this is more of a no-no.
> We can add some hint ofcource like {%widgetset carbon qt}, write special
> parser for that, invent same as rtti structures to store string array of
> supported widgetsets. OR it can be easyly fited into existed platform
> keyword and without inventing second weel existed RTTI structure can be
> extented with arrat of string.
>
> If it is not lazarus but say component set developed for several
> platforms (libraries, os, whatever else) then platform string can be
> 'win32 linux osx' (if property is valid only for 3 os) or 'oracle
> interbase' (if property is valid only for 2 databases).
>
> Another advantage is that with extra info in platform keyword fpc will
> have more informative platform hints.
>
> I see no disadvantages.

Where does the list of allowed values come from? How are the values
validated during compilation (what happens if someone types 'qr' instead
of 'qt' by mistake)? What would be the value of information stored this
way if there's no validation at all?

Tomas