It's not a bug. There's no support in FPC/Pascal for using constants with a defined type in other declarations. Define your MYINTEGERCONST without a type, and it should work.
const MYINTEGERCONST = 5; On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:30 PM Simon Ameis <sameis....@web.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just porting some C code to pascal. This code contains constant > structure definitions which use other constants of simple types. > > However FPC reports "Error: Illegal expression" when using a constant > within an constant record definition. > > program Project1; > > type > TMyRecord = record > x: Integer; > end; > > const > MYRECORDCONST2: TMyRecord = (x: 5); //< compiles fine > MYINTEGERCONST: Integer = 5; //< defining integer const > MYRECORDCONST1: TMyRecord = (x: MYINTEGERCONST); //< using constant is > no possible > begin > end. > > Is this intended or should I fill in a bug report? If it's intendet, I'm > wondering why? > > Regards > Simon Ameis > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >
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