[fpc-devel] procedure ... message

[Vincent Snijders]

Michael Schnell schreef:
> 
>> I see you are still a bit lost. Maybe the documentation can help:
>> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu24.html
> I in fact am lost (as I still don't dare to try to look into the 
> compiler's source code).
> 
> Unfortunately the docs text does not say what code the compiler 
> generates to make the library assign the message to the function it 
> generates from the users source code.

That is because the compiler doesn't generate that code.

Somewhere user code must call
   MyObject.Dispatch(MyMessage);

See implementation of dispatch. It gets the message number and looks for the 
corresponding method in a table. The compiler generates this table at compile time.

This may not be the completely accurate description, but this is how I model things 
in my mind and in my experiments reality hasn't falsified this model.

Vincent