On 09 Dec 2009, at 15:06, Paul van Helden wrote:

In the beginning of this year I could compile this:

TMyRecord = record
  Id: Integer;
  Name: String;
  ChildRecords: array of TMyRecord;
end;

...but now with FPC 2.2.4 I get "Error: Illegal expression" on line 4

Why the change?

I can't even compile it with FPC 2.0.4 (the oldest FPC version I have lying around, and which was released in August 2006). What was the previous FPC version that you used and which could compile the above?

(And if there is a good reason, could the error message be more descriptive?)

I guess it should be possible to give an error similar to what Kylix does:
  tt.pp(9) Error: Type 'TMyRecord' is not yet completely defined


Jonas
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