[fpc-devel] Component FTag and Tag should be int64

[Andrew Brunner]

On Nov 22, 2010, at 9:13 AM, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote
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> The logic is that it is bad programming to use an integer to store a pointer.
> And we don't want to encourage bad programming.
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> Yes, I know it's easy, and yes I know it's common practice. Neither make it right to do so.
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> We'll fix the issue

I was going to disagree with that statement. But after considering it some what then would be the likelihood of getting TComponent to have a Data property of pointer???