[fpc-devel] initialization order of units

[Pascal Riekenberg]

> Jonas Maebe via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> hat am 22.10.2020 22:28 geschrieben:
> 
>  
> On 22/10/2020 21:35, Pascal Riekenberg via fpc-devel wrote:
> > Have there been any changes to the initialization order of units in the
> > last 6 month?
> > I have a complex project with multiple units with initialization
> > section. And now
> > one of those units does not get initialized before it is used by the
> > initialization part of
> > an other unit. This worked at the beginning of the year!
> 
> It might be caused the fix for
> https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32352. Keep in mind that if
> there are uses-cycles via the implementation section, the initialisation
> order of the involved units is undefined.

There it is again: my pet project: Why doesn't pascal allow circular unit references (at least for classes, like forwards)!
I like pascal very much but this is the biggest annoyance!
You always have to work around this (put multiple classes in one unit, create interface classes, ...). And now this:

I have such cycles, but it worked before.
I removed this cycles and it worked as expected.

Isn't there a way to force the order?

Why isn't it initialized first even if the unit is the first after Forms in the program?

If there are uses-cycles via the implementation section why doesn't
fpc prioritize interface order?

Pascal