[fpc-devel] Breaking change in FPC 2.6.1

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> In our previous episode, Ludo Brands said:
>>> that is increasingly happening, with the first D7 supports
>>> disappearing)
>>>
>> The underlying problem is that the Delphi Tbookmark definition migrated from
>> the simple record tag to something that holds (or can hold) the state of the
>> record.
>
> A reason the more to not rely on implementation details, but treat it as an
> opague type as much as possible.
>
>>> But note that changing it to tbytes IMHO doesn't mean you can
>>> skip freebookmark, if you do that you cut corners, and
>>> program for a specific tdataset
>>
>> OK. I understand your point. But now that the dataset implementers, who
>> follow 2.7.1 as you indicated, have added freebookmark to their code, can we
>> move on the next phase: tbytes?
>
>> No need to linger on TBookmark=pointer.
>
> Well, are you sure that the whole FPC+Lazarus codebases properly use
> freebookmark everywhere?

Definitely not. I've never used it in my life. It was the whole point of
having TBookmarkStr: not needing to call freebookmark. And we use bookmark a
lot in our server app.

IMHO FreeBookmark is a relic of the Delphi 1&2 days. 
The switch to a managed TBytes only reinforces this hypothesis.

Michael.