[fpc-pascal] Initializers on const and var

[Marc Santhoff]

Am Dienstag, den 03.06.2008, 15:41 +0200 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
> 
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > is it possible to have an array initialized with variables?
> > 
> > I tried sth. like this (by accident, not intentionally):
> > 
> > const
> > 	ctypes: array [0..9] of hid_t =
> > 	(
> > 		H5T_NATIVE_INT, H5T_C_S1, H5T_C_S1, H5T_C_S1, H5T_C_S1,
> > 		H5T_C_S1, H5T_C_S1, H5T_C_S1, H5T_NATIVE_HBOOL, H5T_NATIVE_HBOOL
> > 	);
> > 
> > assuming the names in upper case are constants. But in fact they are
> > variables (declared "cvar; external" but I think that's not the cause of
> > the error).
> 
> This is the error; The values must be known at compile time.

Okay, but that hold true for any kind of variable, not only those "cvar;
external;" ones.

Anyway, I'll see if changing the base type of the array to pointers is
possible.

Thanks,
Marc