[fpc-devel] QueryInterface on linux/i386 - adding 'in' parameter type?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Jonas Maebe wrote:

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> On 29 Aug 2010, at 16:54, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>> His change would mean that the GCC compiler does things which we currently know nothing about, namely it pushes const parameters by reference in some cases.
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> No, the problem is many people (wrongly) use "const" in Pascal as an equivalent for "type const *" (= the unclean "const type *") of C, mostly for lack of a better alternative.

When in fact they should declare it as

  const P : ^type

? (knowing fully that this is semantically not quite the same)

This of course means that they must always provide the @ when calling this method.

In that case, to be more clean, I think it is better to simply correct the declarations 
and not to mess with the argument types at all.

Hm. A difficult problem in the case of the interface, since it would require adapting 
existing pascal code to match C semantics. Maybe your proposal is not so bad after all, 
using "constref"; at least that would make it very explicit.


Michael.