[fpc-pascal] Implicit generic specializations

[Sven Barth]

Am Mo., 3. Dez. 2018, 03:45 hat Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com>
geschrieben:

>
>
> > On Dec 2, 2018, at 10:53 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <
> fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> >
> > Specialization is expensive. If specialization can be avoided, it should
> be. Not to mention that the non-generic one could have more optimized code.
> > Though to be sure I'll test with Delphi, we'll have to be compatible
> there anyway.
> >
>
> I think the “dummy” sym which is added after the generic procedure is
> overwriting the existing symbols. In the example below (my code disabled
> now) DoThis gives an error because it thinks DoThis is the dummy sym. If we
> want this to work the dummy needs to keep track of existing procsyms,
> unless there’s another way to get that information?
>

The dummy symbol should only be created if there isn't an existing symbol
with that name. So maybe something is buggy there. (Also the dummy symbol
should be used for a non-generic routine if the order of declaration is the
other way round)

Regards,
Sven
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