[fpc-devel] RTTI interface & variant late binding issue (mORMot)

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Steve Hildebrandt wrote:

> Am 05.11.2014 um 13:02 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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>       On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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>             Some of the other changes would however need a note on http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk , since they may require changes to user code (given
>             that a number of tests also need to be changed).
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>       Well, if no compiler changes are needed, I will look at 26773. Implementing 26774 is out of my league, though.
> 
> Just so everyone is up to date on this.
> As I wrote in http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26774:
> It would be useful to have somebody provide a specification for the RTTI layout. I'm willing to supply a patch, since I have a working implementation with my own layout one top
> of the current trunk.

As far as I know, the layout of this particular kind of RTTI can be deduced from the TypInfo unit of Delphi.
At least XE seems to have the info present.

Michael.