[fpc-devel] Proof of Concept ARC implementation

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, ListMember wrote:

> On 2014-10-27 09:39, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, ListMember wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2014-10-27 00:00, Sven Barth wrote:
>>>       On 26.10.2014 12:17, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote:
>>>             On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Sven Barth 
>>> <pascaldragon at googlemail.com
>>>             <mailto:pascaldragon at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                 Definitely not. We are in Pascal and there such directives 
>>> are
>>>                 placed afterwards.
>>> 
>>> how about these:
>>> 
>>> 1) 'record' ---> 'packed record'
>>> 2) AVariable: Integer absolute AnotherVariable.
>> 
>> Weak is a modifier, just as static, cdecl, external etc.
>> 
>> In Pascal, modifiers are placed after the thing they modify.
>> 
>> 'absolute' modifies AVariable. That just confirms the above rule.
>
> To me, 'weak' is modifying the type rather than the variable itself (much 
> like 'packed record').

That is a wrong way of thinking, because the type itself is not modified at all.
The behaviour of the variable is modified.

Michael.