[fpc-devel] RFE: Static virtual variables

[Thaddy]

Alexander Klenin wrote:
>     FStat: Integer; static; virtual;
>
> Creates one instance of the variable per class, including derived classes.
> To implement it, compiler might either reserve a VMT slot for a pointer
> to the variable instance or just assign a fixed offset from the VMT.
>   
Hallvard Vassbotn (and others) has published about the same idea (with 
implementation) for Delphi. Should work for FPC too, but is a nice to 
have on the language level.
See 
http://hallvards.blogspot.com/2007/05/hack17-virtual-class-variables-part-i.html 
and the second part as well as his original reference.
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