[fpc-devel]Array of const TVarRec issues?

[Peter Vreman]

> I am trying to get TDataSet.SetFields working, so I tried to implemented
> Assign and AssignValue and just have SetFields call it to do the dirty
> work instead of doing the same thing. It apears to work for Integers,
> however any sort of String causes segfault's. Doing a writeln I get the
> value, but calling AsString it crashes, and moreover an additional check
> of if (Self is TField) fails. yet when I pass an integer value to the
> same field, goes through the same routine, and AsInteger and it works
> fine. Very confusing.
>
> There also seems to be issues with passing an array of const unless it
> is const value, since I never had issues like this in the past, I pulled
> out old code I wrote awhile back that worked in 1.0.6 and 1.0.7 that did
> similar things with tvarrec and co. the old compiled binaries work, but
> it often causes compiler panics etc on the array of const, and when it
> does compile after tweaking I get the same issues with using strings and
> I guess general corruption.
>
> I am wondering if TVarRec and Const has gotten buggy(er) in the last
> release(1.0.10)? and if so how can I fix/workaround this?

Without a test it is impossible to check it.

Peter