[fpc-pascal] Why opening a file for write fails in fpc 2.6?

[Jonas Maebe]

On 01 Nov 2012, at 11:53, Giuliano Colla wrote:

> Il 01/11/2012 11:43, Jonas Maebe ha scritto:
>> On 01 Nov 2012, at 11:40, Giuliano Colla wrote:
>> 
>>>  Reset(MyFile);  <==== Raises an Exception: EInOutError File not found
>>> end;
>> That depends on the state of the {$i+/-} directive.
>> 
> Which doesn't affect FileOpen behavior.

No, because {$i+/-} dates back to Turbo Pascal and is specifically tied to the "standard" I/O operations. The Delphi-ones only support result-based checking. It's a completely new API with its own convention.


Jonas