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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> On 05 Nov 2014, at 16:34, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> This should be done using a clean room approach though: one person can read 
> the code and document the layout, while someone else implements it. 
> Especially since you'll presumably also have to write your own TypInfo unit 
> code for FPC afterwards to access the data.

I have fixed bug 26773. (test included in testsuite)
I will try to document the RTTI format tomorrow, so it can be implemented/patched ASAP.

Michael.