[fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Sun Dec 23 17:02:30 CET 2012


On 23.12.2012 17:01, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2012, Martin Schreiber wrote:
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>> On Friday 21 December 2012 13:26:12 Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>>
>>> After that there will be 2 RTLs:
>>> 1. The classical RTL, compatible with what you have now.
>>> 2. The unicode-string RTL which will use the namespaces of Delphi.
>>>
>> Do you know how RTTI will be encoded?
>
> I would guess short/ansistrings, since pascal identifiers must be a
> subset of ASCII anyway. It makes no sense to start using Unicode here.
>
> The extended attributes (recently implemented by Joost) may be an
> exception, I'll need to consult with Joost on that.

Just in case: they are not in trunk yet, but only a branch to simplyfy 
review through other core devs.

Regards,
Sven




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