[fpc-pascal] TypeInfo on generic templates

[Sven Barth]

Am 29.10.2020 um 19:27 schrieb Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal:
> Is it possible that the TypeInfo intrinsic could work with generic template types or is this a bug? I get "Illegal qualifier" in the procedure below.
>
> generic procedure DoThis<T>(a: array of T);
> begin
>    writeln(TypeInfo(T)^.name);
> end;

This would fail with a non-generic as well, because the TypeInfo() 
intrinsic returns a plain Pointer. You need to cast it to PTypeInfo (and 
obviously the unit TypInfo needs to be used):

PTypeInfo(TypeInfo(T))^.Name

Regards,
Sven