[fpc-pascal] Get variable name at runtime

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
>>>> Unfortunately pascal macro's are rather limited compared to C. I know I know, you could potentially open up a can of worms, but sometimes more control is required.
>>> There is nothing restraining anybody using an external macro processor. It
>>> is just that we don't want to support it :-)
>> Actually, I'd suggest that there is: the difficulty of integrating an 
>> external macro processor with the standard build process (i.e. it's not 
>> just another stage in a makefile).
> 
> It is. Export all known sources to a new dir for the compiler through the
> preprocessor.

I meant that in the context of FPC, which works out dependencies etc. on 
the fly, one can't arbitrarily hook in an external preprocessor. I meant 
that it wasn't another stage in a makefile because FPC doesn't (can't) 
use makefiles- for reasons that you explained yesterday.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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