>
> On 06 Feb 2008, at 23:19, Jonathan Benedicto wrote:
>
>>> From RAD Studio 2007's Help file on Methods
>> (ms-help://borland.bds5/devcommon/methods_xml.html):
>>
>> Like class methods, class static methods can be accessed without an
>> object reference. Unlike ordinary class methods, class static
>> methods have no Self parameter at all. They also cannot access any
>> instance members. (They still have access to class fields, class
>> properties, and class methods.) Also unlike class methods, class
>> static methods cannot be declared virtual.
>> Methods are made class static by appending the word static to their
>> declaration.
>
> In that case the reason that FPC passes a self pointer is probably
> simply because no special support was ever added for static class
> methods (static is parsed for class methods, but I guess nothing is
> done with it afterwards). Feel free to submit a bug report.
Disabling self is not possible. It is required and also used in our RTL:
class function TObject.InstanceSize : SizeInt;
begin
InstanceSize:=pSizeInt(pointer(self)+vmtInstanceSize)^;
end;
Peter
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