[fpc-pascal] ReadLn issues a warning

[Peter Vreman]

At 12:12 14-5-2005, you wrote:


>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.

The warning is a feature when you call your own made functions. For 
functions like readln() this shouldn't be triggered. Please report it as a bug.


Peter