> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > > On 26/03/2008, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Yes, use fully qualified names. > > > > > > windows.tcriticalsection. > > > syncobjs.tcriticalsection. > > > > > > Why doesn't Delphi compiler complain about it? A quick search > > revealed that Delphi's Windows.pas unit doesn't contain a > > TCriticalSection type definition, so why does FPC's Windows.pas unit? > > Why must FPC have two TCriticalSection type definitions? > > It was translated automatically with the h2pas tool, probably with the -t > option, which prepends a T to all types. For backwards compatibility we > cannot revert this.
Hmm, didn't older (<6) versions simply have this, and did synobjs get introduced later? In that case, if Delphi can break compat, so can we. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
