[fpc-pascal] Problem with varargs directive

[silvioprog]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:56 PM, silvioprog <silvioprog at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Anthony Walter <sysrpl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I believe in Delphi only external functions may use varargs. In your case
>> you are declaring a variable, which could be assigned to a local function.
>>
>
> You are right:
>
[...]

Fixed. I just removed the first `;`:

=== begin code ===
var
  FmtStr: function(const fmt: PAnsiChar): PAnsiChar; cdecl varargs;
=== end code ===

Now it compiles fine in an original copy of Delphi Seattle and in the FPC
from trunk (3.1.1).

I'm glad to compile that, but it is very strange, according EMB docs:

"The varargs directive works only with external routines and only with the
cdecl calling convention.":

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Seattle/en/Procedures_and_Functions#External_Declarations

But I saw many programmers using it in funcs declared as variable:

http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/torry/showcode.php?id=2114
https://github.com/e-tobi/Delphi-Libxml2-XmlTextReader/blob/master/libxml2.pas

So I'm going to use it too hehe! :-)

-- 
Silvio Clécio
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