[fpc-devel] Problems with variants calling convenction

[petr.kristan at epos.cz]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 03:04:43PM +0200, petr.kristan at epos.cz wrote:
> Please, 
> 
> is here anybody who can help me with variants internals?
> I have still problems with VariantArrays and calling convenctions.
> 
> Example:
> 
> function A(): Variant; 
> begin
> end;
> 
> var 
>   V: variant;
> begin
>   V:=A();
> end;
> 
> Why Result of the function a() is'nt a pointer to variable V, but is
> copied in fpc_finalize to variable V !!!! Isn't it unneeded slowing
> down??? And there is futhermore some bug in the returning VarArray.
> 
> I have some free time to help with developement, but i need some
> support from community. 

Now i read in compiler/nld.pas:

{ call helpers for variant, they can contain non ref. counted types like
  vararrays which must be really copied }

But in Kylix aren't Variant results copied. 

Petr

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