[fpc-devel] Record with dynamic array of same type

[Jonas Maebe]

On 09 Dec 2009, at 15:28, dmitry boyarintsev wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Jonas Maebe  
> <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:
>> I guess it should be possible to give an error similar to what  
>> Kylix does:
>>  tt.pp(9) Error: Type 'TMyRecord' is not yet completely defined
>
> if dynamic arrays are actually pointers, why the record should not be
> completely defined?

I don't know why Kylix refuses it. It's true that in theory it could  
be compilable (and apparently some very old FPC version did and very  
new Delphi version does compile it).


Jonas