Op Thu, 12 Mar 2009, schreef Vincent Snijders:
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Martin Schreiber <fp...@bluewin.ch> wrote:
Delphi/Kylix probably can't map a variable to the address of another
variable,
because of that Delphi needs separate implementations of format functions
with and without FormatSettings parameter.
To be honest that is not my concern... As a developer I simply use
ShortDateFormat and that's it.
I guess the fpc developers traded debuggability for maintainability, so you
could have a better fpc (more features or less bugs). That is what it
concerns to you as developer. Maybe you disagree with that trade off.
The GDB with all its cryptic stabs is not the most maintainable code of
the compiler so it's definately not a maintenance trade-off. In fact,
better debugaability would make maintenace of the compiler easier as well;
the compiler remains an incredibly complex piece of technology that isn't always
trivial to debug.
Daniël
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