[fpc-devel] Twice stored record RTTI data

[Maciej Izak]

2016-03-02 23:38 GMT+01:00 Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>:

> With your collection it's more that I feel uneasy with your
> implementation. In general I'm in favor of the addition... But this topic
> is definitely different.
>
> Maybe you need more help from my side?

> How can you know that no one is using this? And only because it's called
> ManagedFields (or so) that doesn't mean that users haven't discovered that
> it contains all fields and use it as such.
> Also any valid code should work with the additional fields as well since
> it will have to check the type kinds anyway.
> Changing this would break *any* code that relies on the fields being in
> there, while only that code that does an Assert(False) or something alike
> will fail with the additional ones.
> So again: we won't change this.
>

conclusion: I can live with that. I will not implement any of my code that
will break current rtti table record solution -,- . Eh... thanks for
patience in discussion with me!

-- 
Best regards,
Maciej Izak
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