[fpc-devel]OS/2 snapshots

[Peter Vreman]

> Hi,
>
> I'm just sitting here at the machine which compiles the OS/2
> snapshots. I hope someone who can answer my question is still
> awake. :)
>
> FPC/2 fails to cycle currently, because some new errors just
> appeared in pmstddlg.pas file in the RTL. It seems to be,
> that the new compiler is more strict on the variable/type
> names, and doesn't allow to a variable and a type to co-exist
> under the same identifier.
>
> The error messages appear:
> D:/develop/main/fpc/compiler/ppc1.exe -Ur -Xs -OG2p3 -n -Fi../inc
> -Fi../i386 -Fi../os2 -FE. -Ch8000000 -di386 -dRELEASE ../os2/pmstddlg.pas
> pmstddlg.pas(653,40) Error: Error in type definition
> pmstddlg.pas(852,32) Error: Error in type definition
> pmstddlg.pas(893,34) Error: Error in type definition
> pmstddlg.pas(902,22) Error: Error in type definition
> pmstddlg.pas(903,20) Error: Error in type definition
> pmstddlg.pas(912,34) Error: Error in type definition
> pmstddlg.pas(1057,22) Error: Error in type definition
> pmstddlg.pas(1069,32) Error: Error in type definition
> pmstddlg.pas(1208,3) Fatal: There were 8 errors compiling module, stopping
>
> All the errors come from the same problem, described above.
> Like this:
>         CNRDragInfo = record
>            pDragInfo : PDragInfo; { <- line 852 }
>            pRecord : PRecordCore;
>         end;
>
> The PDragInfo type is declared somewhere above. My question is
> that this change will be constant in the compiler, or this is
> a "bug" or a side effect of a recent change? So should i fix
> these problems to compile correctly with the current compiler,
> or leave it untouched for now?

It is a bug in the compiler. I changed the routine to look for types. I
guess i broke it for records.