[fpc-devel] Abbrevia and Delphi compatibility

[Peter Vreman]

> After eliminating dozens of bugs now I have a working version of
> Abbrevia for Delphi. Unfortunately this version is not usable with FPC,
> primarily because FPC doesn't support properties for the Object type.
>
> In my code I like to use Object for records with methods and properties,
> which need no dynamic memory allocation. In Abbrevia this feature
> allowed to eliminate near 100 methods of various classes, and simplified
> more code. After all I found the following essential features missing in
> FPC:
>
> 1) Properties for Object type.

Since which Delphi version is this allowed? FPC has an explicit check for
delphi mode to disable property in tp style object.