[fpc-devel] Re: Class field reordering

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 22.07.2012 13:44, schrieb 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. :-)

I wouldn't bet on it though.