On 24 Jul 2005, at 03:01, Peter N Lewis wrote:

> const: passed by value on most compilers, including MW and GPC.  
> Code crashes.

I was previously told that Metrowerks passes all const records by  
reference. But Adriaan now recently said this is not the case after  
all...

> We can and do work around this for FPC.  And FPC can instead have  
> some sort of special FPC "MWPascal", but then it has the same  
> problem as MW above.

No, mwpascal means "pass all const records by reference" in FPC. The  
main problem in this case is with callbacks: they have to be declared  
as "mwpascal" as well.


Jonas

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