[fpc-devel] Fpc does not allow Chr() in type definition. Bug?

[Sven Barth]

Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
So., 8. Nov. 2020, 22:18:

> Am 07.11.2020 um 23:00 schrieb Bart via fpc-devel:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Type
> >    SubRange = Chr(1)..Chr(2);
> > begin
> > end.
> >
> > This compiles in TP 6.0 and Delphi 7.0, but fpc doesn't.
> >
> > Free Pascal Compiler version 3.3.1 [2020/09/26] for i386
> > Copyright (c) 1993-2020 by Florian Klaempfl and others
> > Target OS: Win32 for i386
> > Compiling test.pas
> > test.pas(2,14) Error: Identifier not found "Chr"
> > test.pas(2,28) Error: Error in type definition
> > test.pas(5) Fatal: There were 2 errors compiling module, stopping
> > Fatal: Compilation aborted
> >
> > Is this a bug?
>
> Yes, it should work. It got broken somewhere during some generic work (at
> least I think so). Sven, can you please have a
> look?
>

I don't know if it's related to generics that this does not work, but at
least with my changes in r47353 it now behaves consistent with e.g. Ord().

Regards,
Sven

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