[fpc-devel] Two issues with variant type definitions

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 11.11.2010 15:19, schrieb Sergei Gorelkin:
> Hello,
> 
> Two questions I wanted to ask:
> 
> 1) There are two variant type defintions (varxxx constants): one in
> compiler/symdef.pas, another one in rtl/inc/varianth.inc. Worse, they
> are out of sync. Is it really necessary to have a separate set of these
> definitions in compiler?

Previously we always decided to keep two separate files, see e.g.
fpcinnr.inc and innr.inc, so I'd prefer just to update the compiler one.

> 
> 2) In FPC, varunicodestr=22 (in symdef.pas), while Delphi defines
> varUString=$102. Although meaning of these types are a bit different in
> FPC and Delphi, probably we should change varunicodestr in range > 256,
> because values below 256 are used for types that are known to COM.
> Are there objections/opinions on doing so?

No.