[fpc-devel] Redefine FillChar() to use out parameter instead

[Florian Klaempfl]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> Jonas Maebe wrote:
>> Delphi compatibility. And Delphi does that because COM requires this  
>> behaviour.
> 
> Can't that behaviour be limited to Windows platform only. Now *all*
> platforms and all non-COM code has to be stuck with the useless compiler
> hint simply because of some Windows and more specifically Windows + COM
> behaviour.

Without COM, FPC wouldn't have out parameters.