[fpc-devel] Macro Processing

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 14.05.2011 15:07, schrieb Joerg Schuelke:
> Am Sat, 14 May 2011 12:14:52 +0200
> schrieb Florian Klämpfl<florian at freepascal.org>:
>
>> Because a lot of code in the compiler is very old (remember, it was
>> started in 1993 using TP) and writestr for enums is new compare with
>> this time span. Nobody rewrote the code yet.
>
> And it should not been rewritten this way, because this would force the
> use of RTTI information inside the compiler , which is needless.

Since the compiler uses classes, it uses rtti already heavily so I miss 
the point.