program hello;
const
   devcfg3: longWord = DEVCFG3_DEFAULT; section '.devcfg3';
begin
end.

is a program that compiles fine but gives me an error in lazarus when I try to use completion with ctrl-SPACE.

hello.pas(3,48) Error: = erwartet aber '.devcfg3' gefunden

Can I disable codetools for this const definition or is it possible to get a fix for this issue in trunk of lazarus?

Thank you,

Michael

fpc 2.6.4 gives the same error.
When is "section" allowed?

Can I disable codetools for this const definition or is it possible to get a fix for this issue in trunk of lazarus?

I will add it, but I need to know the syntax and when it is allowed.

Mattias

It only works on certain targets (currently only Embedded AFAIK). I don't know its rules of declarations currently though...

Regards,
Sven
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I did a little digging, Sven is right, this is only for embedded targets; I found the following in systems.pas:

{ all embedded systems }
systems_embedded = [system_i386_embedded,system_m68k_embedded, system_alpha_embedded,system_powerpc_embedded,
system_sparc_embedded,system_vm_embedded,
system_iA64_embedded,system_x86_64_embedded,
system_mips_embedded,system_arm_embedded,
system_powerpc64_embedded,system_avr_embedded,
system_jvm_java32,system_mipseb_embedded,system_mipsel_embedded];

        { all systems that allow section directive }
        systems_allow_section = systems_embedded;

I found the first occurence of this in the sources of fpc 2.4.0

Michael

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Thanks. I added it. Please test.

Mattias

Unfortunately the fix does not work for me. I still get the same error message

I added some debugging:

   //if UpAtomIs('EXTERNAL') then
   //  debugln(['TPascalParserTool.ReadVariableType
',CurNode.Parent.Parent.DescAsString,' ',CurNode.Parent.DescAsString,'
',CurNode.DescAsString]);
   //if UpAtomIs('SECTION') then
     debugln(['TPascalParserTool.ReadVariableType
',CurNode.Parent.Parent.DescAsString,' ',CurNode.Parent.DescAsString,'
',CurNode.DescAsString]);

when the 'if' line is uncommented I do not get any output.

when it's commented out I see :

TPascalParserTool.ReadVariableType Interface Section Var Section Var popping up several times.

This is my test program:

program hello;
const
   DEVCFG3_DEFAULT=1;
const
   devcfg3: longWord = DEVCFG3_DEFAULT; section '.devcfg3';
   devcfg2: longWord = DEVCFG3_DEFAULT; section '.devcfg2';
begin
end.

Fixed. Please test.

Mattias

Works fine now, thank you very much for the fix!

Michael