On 27 May 2010, at 23:31, Yann Bat wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> Ok but why a different behaviour between [fpc | objfpc] mode and [tp |
> delphi] mode ?

It is allowed in Delphi and TP because they allow declaring typed constants of 
objects. I don't remember why it was disabled in the FPC modes, but that 
happened a long time ago (before the move from cvs to svn). Maybe someone else 
does.


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