[lazarus] bug last CVS Lazarus

[Marco van de Voort]

> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 20:08:32 +0100 (CET)
> marcov at Stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote:
> 
> > > Linux+fpc-1.0.10
> > > Compiling last CVS Lazarus, here you have a bug
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Compiling filectrl.pp
> > > filectrl.inc(461,8) Error: Identifier not found MODE_T
> > > filectrl.inc(461,14) Error: Error in type definition
> > > filectrl.inc(472,29) Error: Incompatible types: got "WORD" expected 
> > > "<erroneous type>"
> > 
> > Fixed, I hope.
> > 
> Just a question, why did you change it to longint, and not to word?

It is a longint on FreeBSD :_)

But afaik this is the case on linux also nowadays. Linux also changed a bit
after the creation of the original linux unit :-)

This kind of change illustrates some of the reasons behind the change of the linux port.

Adding proper typing aids portability, but also change through time.