Re: [fpc-devel] Dangerous optimization in CASE..OF

Am 20.04.2018 um 21:35 schrieb Ondrej Pokorny: > Sven (or anybody else), could you please comment on > https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=33603 ? I feel I am getting crazy. That bug became a textbook example of Cipolla's fourth law, sorry. > From what I read, there seems to be a difference

Re: [fpc-devel] Dangerous optimization in CASE..OF

Thorsten Engler schrieb am Sa., 21. Apr. 2018, 14:12: > > -Original Message- > > From: fpc-devel On Behalf Of > > Martok > > Sent: Saturday, 21 April 2018 21:39 > > To: fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > > Subject: Re:

Re: [fpc-devel] Dangerous optimization in CASE..OF

Alexander Grotewohl schrieb am Sa., 21. Apr. 2018, 16:40: > To be honest I agree with what he's saying. We're bending enums to do > things normal people just wouldn't (and shouldn't) do. > > And seriously, "Delphi, Delphi, Delphi!" .. why don't we strive for > something a

Re: [fpc-devel] Dangerous optimization in CASE..OF

To be honest I agree with what he's saying. We're bending enums to do things normal people just wouldn't (and shouldn't) do. And seriously, "Delphi, Delphi, Delphi!" .. why don't we strive for something a little better and make the people porting from Delphi bend a little this way than us

Re: [fpc-devel] String constants to ObjC types

On 20/04/18 02:59, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: The documentation: http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_PasCocoa suggests to use compiler built-in function ObjCSelector. I presume this turns the selector into a constant, thus has no impact on the runtime. However, how hard would it be to make the

Re: [fpc-devel] Dangerous optimization in CASE..OF

> -Original Message- > From: fpc-devel On Behalf Of > Martok > Sent: Saturday, 21 April 2018 21:39 > To: fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] Dangerous optimization in CASE..OF > > Am 20.04.2018 um 21:35 schrieb Ondrej Pokorny:

Re: [fpc-devel] Dangerous optimization in CASE..OF

On 21.04.2018 13:38, Martok wrote: Am 20.04.2018 um 21:35 schrieb Ondrej Pokorny: Therefore I enabled the IS/AS operators on enums with holes only in Delphi mode and disabled them in all other modes. Please do not do this. The other modes are the only ones that really need it, in Delphi mode,

Re: [fpc-devel] Dangerous optimization in CASE..OF

Am 21.04.2018 um 16:40 schrieb Alexander Grotewohl: > To be honest I agree with what he's saying. We're bending enums to do > things normal people just wouldn't (and shouldn't) do. No, we don't. There are two semantically different sorts of enums: if you want an enum to contain only the named