On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Andrew Brunner wrote:
I was looking at the code for Tag property in classes unit and noticed I can't
safely use Tag to keep runtime pointers (at least on a 64 bit compile). What is
the likelihood of getting tags changed to support universal access under 64/32
bit compiles?
What is the logic behind the shortfall? I suspect just legacy and it could be
easily fixed. _______________________________________________
The logic is that it is bad programming to use an integer to store a pointer.
And we don't want to encourage bad programming.
Yes, I know it's easy, and yes I know it's common practice.
Neither make it right to do so.
We'll fix the issue as the upcoming Delphi 64-bit - unfortunately - forces us
to follow suit.
Michael.
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