[fpc-devel] $IF issues

[Florian Klaempfl]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 8/14/06, Vincent Snijders <vsnijders at quicknet.nl> wrote:
>> You miss the point: Delphi compatibility mode is for people who 
>> develop for FPC, but
>> want to compile occasionally in Delphi. In the current situation they 
>> are not aware
>> of this weakness of Delphi (no support of $ENDIF for $IF), until they 
>> compile in
>> Delphi.
> 
> That is exactly what happened.  I only develop under FPC, but
> contribute a lot to the tiOPF project, which is mostly used by Delphi
> developers.   I broke the Delphi builds by adding the $IF..$ENDIF
> code.  The tiOPF project uses the Delphi Mode for the FPC compiler,
> and I was surprised when notified of the problem.

Well, the delphi mode is made to compile delphi programs with fpc not to check 
your programs for delphi compliance ;)


> 
>> But maybe Graeme should make a Delphi feature request too (and see 
>> which is
>> honoured first) :-)
> 
> Where do I go, to ask for such a feature in Borland Delphi?  I guess
> it would take years to materialize. :-)   Borland is not as pro-active
> as the FPC maintainers!!
> 
> Regards,
>  Graeme.
> 
>