[fpc-devel] confusion in FPC version numbers

Micha Nelissen micha at neli.hopto.org
Fri Mar 30 09:06:14 CEST 2007


Jonas Maebe wrote:
> Yes, but it still contains several known bugs such as cryptic error 
> messages, context sensitivity (if procedure Foo is declared in units A 
> and B, and the unit declaring the generic which calls Foo uses A while a 
> unit declaring a specialisation uses B, then the specialisation will 
> call B.Foo instead of A.Foo), and a number of tests do not yet work.

FYI: added the context sensitivity test to svn (example how you could 
get "bitten"):

http://www.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/tests/test/tgeneric14.pp?view=markup
http://www.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/tests/test/ugeneric14.pp?view=markup

The test should print "Foo", but does not.

Micha



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