[fpc-pascal] Smart Pointers

Florian Klämpfl florian at freepascal.org
Wed May 11 22:23:09 CEST 2016


Am 11.05.2016 um 14:12 schrieb Maciej Izak:
> 2016-05-11 13:46 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org <mailto:michael at freepascal.org>>:
> 
>     Anything the compiler needs *must* be in the system unit. The compiler
>     should only assume the system unit, possibly objpas or macpas or so.
> 
>     All the rest should remain out of the RTL, which should be as small as
>     possible. So rtl-generics is your best bet. Even the classes unit is better
>     outside the rtl, but I think Marco is reluctant to remove it.
> 
>     I have remarked on this before: this tight dependency you are creating is very worrying.
> 
> 
> FPC team is very selective and with double standards and that is very worrying. For example fgl
> module is part of RTL 

Actually, once classes should again use fgl for the TList etc. implementations. This was already
done, but reverted again. I do not remember the reason though.



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