[fpc-pascal] fcl-passrc errors

[Sven Barth]

Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> schrieb am So., 13. Okt. 2019,
08:20:

> >             2)  For..in loops
> >
> >             EParserError: Expected := or in at token "(" in file
> >
>  /Users/ryanjoseph/Developer/Projects/FPC/NewEngine/Sources/Examples/EmptyWindow.pas
> at line 138 column
> >             14
> >
> >
> >       For in loops should be supported, but I've never seen this before:
> >
> >             for pointer(entity) in entities do
> >
> >
> >       What is for pointer(entity) in entities  supposed to do ?
> >
> >       It can be that this syntax is not supported (no surprise, since I
> don't have
> >       a clue what this is supposed to do).
> >
> >
> > Just type casting because the array is an array of pointers. I get these
> errors otherwise "Incompatible types: got "Pointer"
> > expected “TEntity"”. I could use a proper type in a generic array but I
> don’t always do that.
>
> I didn't know you could do this in a for in loop. FPC eats this ?
>

It currently does, but it might as well be a bug in FPC. I'll have to cross
check with Delphi.


> >
> >              begin
> >                entity.Update;
> >                entity.Draw(renderer);
> >                renderer.PushBox(entity.GetHitBox, TRGBA.RedColor);
> >              end;
> >
> >             3) {$i settings} will not find the file “settings.inc”. This
> is valid in FPC but the parser seems to
> >             have other rules.
> >
> >
> >       They should be the same.
> >
> >       As said, pas2js uses fcl-passrc, and pas2js handles inifiles just
> as FPC
> >       does.
> >
> >
> > Another bug then. Should I make a bug report for these?
>
> Not yet.
>
> I have no idea how you call the parser. Include files most
> definitely work: the documentation generator uses fcl-passrc, and the
> RTL/FCL is full of include files.
>
> Probably your invocation of the parser is simply wrong or missing some
> arguments.
>

Could the missing ".inc" be the problem? I have not checked, but it could
be that FPC always adds ".inc" if no extension is present.

Regards,
Sven
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