[fpc-devel] published versus advanced rtti

[Martin Frb]

btw, would it make sense to ask a dwarf rtti attribute to be more than a 
flag (ie. a pointer to the location?)

I know the class has the pointer as first entry.


fields... How is the rtti for TMyClass.MyPulbishedInt found? by name?

And for other types? Rtti for an enum?



On 23/10/2026 09:07, Martin Frb via fpc-devel wrote:
> Afaik the published keywords only purpose is to add RTTI (or do 
> nothing, depending on $M).
>
> Afaik using advanced rtti (I haven't done yet) you can add RTTI to 
> other fields too?
>
>
> If so, is there any difference in the result?
>
>
> The reason for asking is that this is under discussion for adding 
> Dwarf representation. Originally based on the idea to mark published 
> fields. But since other language have rtti too, using the name 
> "published" would be to limiting (as Pascal only). So the idea now is 
> to add a flag, that a field has rtti => in Pascal to be used to point 
> out published.
>
>
> If advanced RTTi is effectively the same as published (albeit possible 
> with extended info), then its likely going to be the one flag. If 
> there are reasons where the difference between published and advanced 
> needs to be known, then this may be the time to make it known.
>
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