[fpc-devel] RTTI method paramlist broken?

[Paul Ishenin]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
>> Where is the calling convention in the RTTI stored?
>
> I don't think it is stored anywhere (does Delphi specify whether e.g. 
> register or stdcall is used?). But you shouldn't need it for the 
> parameter order, because depending on whether the calling convention 
> specifies left-to-right or right-to-left pushing, the order of the 
> parameters in the rtti also changes. That's why 
> tests/webtbs/tw12038.pp contains stdcall for all methods, because 
> otherwise I can't use constant strings to check the results (since on 
> i386, the default calling convention pushes from left to right instead 
> of from right to left). This is at least Kylix-compatible.
Just tested with D2009:

  TStdcallMethod = procedure(Sender: TObject; Something: LongInt) of 
object; stdcall;

If it is stdcall then methods must be listed in the rtti right-to-left 
but delphi stored Sender as first and Something as second.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.