[fpc-devel] extending platform flag request

[Vinzent Höfler]

Marc Weustink wrote:

>> The informativeness of 'platform' hints could be improved by including 
>> a comment that is adjacent to the keyword, if one exists, e.g:
>>
>> property SomeProp; platform; // qt and carbon only
>>
>> Then hint will then be:
>>  property 'SomeProp' is platform-specific (qt and carbon only).
> 
> Indeed, but then you have to scan comments. Which will be gone once you 
> compile the unit.
> 
>> But this stuff REALLY has nothing to do with runtime...
> 
> The hints itself not. I agree.
> But when doing RTTI, I might want to give the user some feedback.
> In the current situation I've no option for that.

Time to introduce pragmas? Something like

    pragma Platform (SomeProp, 'qt, carbon');

or in more general terms:

    pragma <Pragma_Name> (<Identifier>, <Property> [, <Property>, ...]);

perhaps?


Regards,

Vinzent.


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