On Sat, 22 Dec 2012, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, dev.d...@gmail.com said:Users can define the internal type with e.g. {$STRING UTF8} for their *whole* project.This is technically impossible. Both FPC and Lazarus don't have a complete overview of all units and includefiles in a project, and compiles can also be parts of program. Rule of thumb: anything global must be passed on the cmdline everytime, and directives are only for unit level. (a few special ones for library units like $libsuffix excluded)
While this is correct, I think it is possible to construct a (new) directive that can be inserted in a program/library file only, and which will have the same effect as the command-line argument: for all units that will be compiled as part of the normal run, the string type is set.
Whether or not this is desirable, is another matter. (personally, I think we have enough with the command-line version) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
