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

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be escreveu:
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> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
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>> Andrew Brunner schrieb:
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>>> That would not be an issue as Int64 is available under all flavors 
>>> of FPC. I don't see the hold up in adding a patch for Data field. 
>>> There is just one unit to change. What makes this so complicated 
>>> that it hasn't be accomplished yet???
>>
>> First we have to agreee about the new type. Int64 could have been 
>> choosen already - by Delphi - when this were a reasonable decision.
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> As I understand it , Andrew is talking about adding an additional 
> field 'Data' of type pointer (or better would be TObject) which would 
> exist next to the Tag field.
>
> For Delphi compatibility reasons, the Tag type will be changed to PtrInt.

Good.

I've been waiting for some time:
http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org/msg05886.html

Luiz