[fpc-devel] Patches

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Van Canneyt schrieb:

>> Every external tool has to drag in all the units, that initialize the 
>> used global variables, regardless of their placement in globals.pas or 
>> other units. Consequently all global variables should reside in those 
>> units, that contain their initialization code. Doing so may increase 
>> the number of units, that have to be used in *all* other units, be 
>> internal or external, but it would provide the supposed consistency of 
>> the unit dependencies - automagically, with no need for further 
>> considerations or discussions.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this exactly the opposite of what you 
> were doing, i.e. putting all such variables in globals.pas ?

I feel an urgent need to clarify what we are talking about :-(

When you (everybody, please) inspect the NoGlobals branch, in detail the 
*release candidate* (around r15858, see README.txt), then I only had 
moved global variables *out* of globals.pas. This was my initial 
approach, that should be discussed. Later revisions stem from various 
attempts to identify and cure the ppudump problem.

DoDi