On 27 May 2010, at 16:01, Yann Bat wrote:
> I don't understand why compilation of the program below failed in fpc
> and objfpc mode. In tp and delphi mode it works as expected but in fpc
> and objfpc mode the compiler complains :
>
> blob.pas(17,3) Error: Constants of objects containing a VMT aren't allowed
> blob.pas(17,3) Fatal: Syntax error, ";" expected but "(" found
>
> Since my object has no virtual methods why a VMT ?
The compiler always adds a VMT if an object has a constructor or destructor.
The reason is that the VMT also contains the instance size, which is used by
the constructor helper to allocate the required amount of memory.
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