Re: gdb-patches RFA: Fix pascal behavior for class fields

"Prof Abimbola Olowofoyeku" <[email protected]> Sat, 10 Jan 2015 13:56:08 -0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.compilers.gpc
Organization	ChiefSoft
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On 10 Jan 2015 at 3:17, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

> Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:
> > 
> > Supply "--extended-syntax" and GPC will accept "class" (and if you are
> > going to use "Result" then you will need to add "--implicit-result"). 
> > 
> > However, I do not believe that the "class" will be treated much 
> > differently from a bog-standard Borland Pascal "object" - for example,
> > not having (or not calling) a constructor will not crash the program
> > (as it should do, with Delphi-style classes).
> 
> Well, GPC intenally converts classes to _pointers_ to objcts.
> Not initializing class means using nil pointer, so expect
> crash.  
[...]

I stand corrected! 

Best regards, The Chief
--------
Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 
web:  http://www.greatchief.plus.com/


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