[fpc-pascal] Windows unit and SyncObjs unit clash

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 26/03/2008, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, use fully qualified names.
> >
> >  windows.tcriticalsection.
> >  syncobjs.tcriticalsection.
> 
> 
> Why doesn't Delphi compiler complain about it?  A quick search
> revealed that Delphi's Windows.pas unit doesn't contain a
> TCriticalSection type definition, so why does FPC's Windows.pas unit?
> Why must FPC have two TCriticalSection type definitions?

It was translated automatically with the h2pas tool, probably with the -t
option, which prepends a T to all types. For backwards compatibility we
cannot revert this.

Michael.