[fpc-devel] Definition of the time-fration in a TDateTime before 30/12/1899

[Florian Klaempfl]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 
> On 22 mei 2006, at 16:38, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> 
>> We use the simple approach with halt because using the fpcunit for
>> basic tests
>> would require that OOP works always but it could be easily broken and
>> thus all
>> tests would fail. So we designed the test suite in a way which keeps
>> prerequisits as low as possible.
> 
> Given that the code generator is almost entirely OOP nowadays, I doubt
> we would even get to the testsuite if it were to be broken :)

Well, for regression testing this is true but not for bootstrap testing :)