[fpc-devel] Twice stored record RTTI data

[Sven Barth]

Am 02.03.2016 17:49 schrieb "Maciej Izak" <hnb.code at gmail.com>:
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> 2016-03-02 17:15 GMT+01:00 Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>:
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>> This will not be changed due to backwards compatibility. This is not up
for discussion.
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> No. Real argument please and technical detail. You can argue in this way
any buggy element in compiler. Any logical example where this bug "feature"
is used? I think it works in current way by accident. By fixing this bug
more code from Delphi can be ported in correct way, *without functional
workaround*.
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> If you don't have any logical argument, I'll keep it on Delphi compatible
and logical way in my branch.
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> it will not break any correctly written code, even more - after fixing
this many correct code from Delphi can start work.

It will break code that relies on non-managed fields being present in the
RTTI. As Jonas said our RTTI is not guaranteed to be Delphi compatible, so
*introducing* Delphi compatibility while *sacrificing* backwards
compatibility (namely to enumerate non-managed fields) is *not* acceptable.
I can already tell you now that this part of your code will definitely not
be merged then.

Regards,
Sven
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