[fpc-pascal] ReadLn issues a warning

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Yiannis Dondos wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> could you please tell me if there is something wrong with the following
> code:
> 
> program test1;
> 
> var
>    f: Text;
>    i: Integer;
>    s: ShortString;
> 
> begin
>      Assign (f, 'test.dat');
>      Reset (f);
> 
>      ReadLn (f, i);
>      ReadLn (f, s);  // Warning: Variable not initialized
> 
>      Close (f);
> end.
> 
> FPC 1.9.8 on Linux issues a warning that FPC 1.0.10 never did.
> The question is why the string variable needs to be initialized?

It does not need to be. The warning is bogus. This is a bug.

Michael.