[fpc-devel] {$I %LINE%} and friends

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri Apr 29 12:09:46 CEST 2011


In our previous episode, Dani?l Mantione said:
> >> I wonder why FPC broke Delphi compatibility by adding {$MODE}, instead of 
> >> choosing its own prefix for added compiler directives and macros.
> >
> > Because it would mean yet another kind of directive, this is confusing.
> 
> My take on it is that if Delphi aborts on it, that is a Delphi problem. A 
> compiler should warn, not abort, at a unknown directive.

The question is not if that is Delphi's problem, but how you are going to
make it their problem and fix it :-)



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