[fpc-devel] RIP NoGlobals

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:34:18 +0200
Florian Klämpfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:

>[...]
> > During my experiments I've learned how fragile the current state of
> > the compiler codebase is - even a minor change can have inpredictable
> > consequences in other parts of the code. 
> 
> This won't change. A compiler is simply something very interwinded. Your
> problems with cyclic unit dependencies prove it.

While touching the fpc sources I often got a compile
error which was "fixed" by compiling a second time.
Is this normal?


Mattias