[Lazarus] Log4D weirdness

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Am 31.12.2014 um 21:51 schrieb Marco van de Voort:

> Afaik the problem is that "const" as used in classic delphi is not 
> very portable. In theory it is specified as immutable (can't be 
> modified), but widely abused to mean "by reference".
Const parameters exist for optimization, the compiler is allowed to pass 
them by reference instead of a copy.
> This happens to be the case for x86 ABIs, but this is not portable 
> (which why FPC introduced constref)
I don't see how this is not portable - as long as the procedure is OPL. 
External procedures of other languages don't leave room for such an 
optimization, even in x86 ABIs, that's why constref was introduced for them.

DoDi