[fpc-devel] Re: Class field reordering

[Martin Schreiber]

On Sunday 22 July 2012 13:23:50 Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Martin Schreiber said:
> > > I don't think it's the best. I'm also quite sure it will require more
> > > work from you in the long run, keeping them up to date and merging bug
> > > fixes and new features from FPC back into your fork.
> >
> > I doubt it, the experience shows the opposite. :-)
> >
> > > > AFAIK TObject is the only class which depends on compiler magic? Are
> > > > there other classes which can not be duplicated?
> > >
> > > Pretty much anything in the system and dialect units (objpas, macpas,
> > > objc, iso7185) is/can be(come) tightly bound to the compiler. The rest
> > > should be safe.
> >
> > So classes.pp except for TObject is safe?
>
> Afaik yes. Exception is in sysutils (magic too ?), tobject is in objpas.
>
Ah, yes. So whole classes unit is independent from compiler. Super. :-)

Martin