From: Rohit Gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> So, is this all stuffed up ? TField doesnt know about it, teh Variant
> doesnt work with it. What gives. Is there a second patch to D5
> for it ?
Jeff Overcash posted the following to mers.interbase.list last October, as
part of a reply to a very similar question:
>>
Don't expect it in a patch. The bug is actually in the underlying Variant
implementation of int64's in the OS. Due to this bug Borland could not
implement Int64 support at the TParam level. For TField they also did not
implement it at the TField level, but instead added a TLargeIntField to get
around this MS bug.
D6 will not rely on the MS implementation of Variants. Since there is a
custom
Variants class being done for Kylix, a lot of the Delphi stuff will use that
class since it is much more extensible compared to the MS one (which isn't).
So
I expect it will be fixed in D6 (or at least my last talk with Mark Edington
reflected this).
<<
There's probably more info in the newsgroup archives if you care to look.
Cheers,
Carl
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