On 06 Feb 2008, at 23:19, Jonathan Benedicto wrote:
From RAD Studio 2007's Help file on Methods
(ms-help://borland.bds5/devcommon/methods_xml.html):
Like class methods, class static methods can be accessed without an
object reference. Unlike ordinary class methods, class static
methods have no Self parameter at all. They also cannot access any
instance members. (They still have access to class fields, class
properties, and class methods.) Also unlike class methods, class
static methods cannot be declared virtual.
Methods are made class static by appending the word static to their
declaration.
In that case the reason that FPC passes a self pointer is probably
simply because no special support was ever added for static class
methods (static is parsed for class methods, but I guess nothing is
done with it afterwards). Feel free to submit a bug report.
Jonas
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