[Lazarus] Identifier not found, but code completion works....

[Martin Schreiber]

On Monday 21 February 2011 07:49:30 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Op 2011-02-19 18:47, Mattias Gaertner het geskryf:
> > It is not the first time that people added implementation uses sections
> > to the Lazarus code, creating circular dependencies, which lead
> > weeks/months later to strange errors.
>
> I have yet to see such an example - and least this has never happened in
> my years of working with Object Pascal, Delphi, FPC. Lazarus IDE is the
> only project I have ever heard of such problems so....
>
> 1) There is something really strange about the Lazarus IDE code
>
> 2) If you think the implementation section causes circular unit
> reference issues, then it is contrary to how Delphi explains the object
> pascal language - thus there is a bug in FPC, because Delphi does not
> work like that. Please report such a issue with an example to the FPC
> team please. I would be very interested in such an example too.
>
The problem is that FPC often crashes while compiling a project with complex 
implementation uses relations. Compiling with -B normally fixes the issues. A 
testcase must contain the whole project with the existing ppu's.

Martin