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fpc-devel · 2026-10

1. Questions on RTTI

   Can someone check the below statements for correctness please? --------------------------------------------------- - A  class itself has always some RTTI of its own.…

   MMSMartin Frb, Michael Van Canneyt, Sven Barth10-29-2026 21:04 UTC
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2. Error building FPC main in Fedora 44 ("read-only segment has dynamic relocations", in linking pas2js)

   Is this a known bug? Any directions to investigate this? Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.2 [2021/05/16] for x86_64 (downloaded from SourceForge, IIRC) Output: (...)…

   FFlávio Etrusco10-29-2026 18:22 UTC
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3. composed record with private/public => documented behaviour?

   The fields of the embedded record become available in the outer record. What visibility do they get (I can and have tested, and results make sense / but I want to know,…

   MMMartin Frb, Mattias Gaertner10-28-2026 07:37 UTC
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4. published versus advanced rtti

   Afaik the published keywords only purpose is to add RTTI (or do nothing, depending on $M). Afaik using advanced rtti (I haven't done yet) you can add RTTI to other…

   MMMartin Frb, Michael Van Canneyt10-23-2026 09:42 UTC
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5. Fwd: New Issue: Accessibility Declarations for FreePascal

   Can someone comment on this? Do we have C-like distinction between access and visible? I would think not? If you can access it you can see it, and vice versa? I can't…

   MMTMartin Frb, Marco van de Voort, Tomas Hajny10-21-2026 09:17 UTC
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6. Val() behaviour in a function depends on LongStrings ON/OFF?

   This is driving me crazy. Val('256', AByte, Code) should fail. It does, but sometimes it does not. =========== uses sysutils; {$PUSH} {$R+} function…

   BBart10-17-2026 21:27 UTC
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7. Feedback please - semantics of private vs strict private

   I started a proposal to add strict private/protected to DWARF. If I could have some thoughts on the below question please. If I understand that correct, the idea may be…

   MMartin Frb10-13-2026 10:44 UTC
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8. Currency update

   I have to apologise for my recent absence and lack of progress fixing the bugs I've caused.  I'm currently fixing the failure in webtbs/tw41865c.pp which is centred…

   JSJ. Gareth "Kit" Moreton, Sven Harazim10-7-2026 19:52 UTC
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9. TStrings.IndexOf(String, Integer) question

   TStrings has - function IndexOf(const S: string): Integer; virtual; - function IndexOf(const S: string; aStart : Integer): Integer; virtual; TStringList has - function…

   BMBart, Michael Van Canneyt10-4-2026 20:40 UTC
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10. stat and nil

    Are older Linux versions safe to  call stat with a nil pointer? https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/stat.2.html (According to google 6.11 is from 2024 / if so, older…

    MMartin Frb10-4-2026 09:21 UTC
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