On 11 Nov 2010, at 00:21, Henry Vermaak wrote: > On 10 November 2010 18:13, Alexander Klenin <kle...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As a piece of anecdotal evidence, the fact that FPC >> does not "properly" support interfaces was the reason >> for at least one company I worked for to reject it and move to Delphi >> 2007 instead >> (from Delphi 7). > > Why didn't they just set a bounty or pay a compiler dev to fix it? > I'm sure that would be cheaper than buying lots of Delphi licences.
I don't think that this is something that can simply be fixed. As I mentioned before, this behaviour would depend on FPC performing exactly the same kind of optimisations for reference-counted entities as Delphi under all circumstances. That is simply not a requirement that is maintainable. Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
