Christian Iversen wrote: > Finally I got some spare time for coding. > > So, after quite a bit of help from Florian (Thank you!), the > implements-keyword is.... well, IMPLEMENTED! Finally! > > It's not yet in trunk, but it will be soon. > > As far as I can tell, it's completely hack-free, but I will submit the > revisions as patches for code review. > > The code is still not complete, and there are some needed changes that will > happen when I can find the time (for instance, what's the procedure to add > new compiler messages? should I just add them to errore.msg?)
Yes, at the appropriate place. Then run make msg in fpc/compiler and commit the changed msg*.inc files as well. > > The current version of the patch adds 2*sizeof(pointer) to each > TInterfaceEntry. That might seem like a lot, but with bitpacking this can be > brought down to just 1*sizeof(pointer). > > Now, to make the bitpacking I need to be able to assume VMT's are always > aligned to at least 4-byte boundaries. I think this is a safe assumption, but > maybe it's not? Well, when compiling optimized for size it isn't I fear. > > (if this is not possible, it's not a huge problem, just a slight waste of > space) > > I'd be happy to answer any questions, or hear any comments regarding this new > feature. > _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel