[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Henry Vermaak]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:44:37AM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
> > > >>But on the other hand, if an application programmer could
> > > >>disable FPC's unit handling and use  make -j  instead, choosing
> > > >>to pay the price of difficult maintenance, it might defuse the
> > > >>criticism coming from certain quarters.
> > > >>
> > > >Make can not figure out the dependencies between units by itself
> > > >as it would need to parse them.
> > > 
> > > That's for the user to do, if he thinks he can do a better job than FPC.
> > 
> > Or implement an option that spits out the dependencies for make, so that
> > the user doesn't have to do this.
> 
> That does't work, since in FPC an unit is an interface AND an
> implementation. And inline functions are in the implementation, not the 
> interface.
> 
> The only way is to simply toss the modular system (units) out, and work with
> $i, declare functions as externals in headers, let the compiler spit out
> dependencies.

OK, I'll drop this line of enquiry then :)  Thanks for the information
(and the patience).

Henry