[Lazarus] HEADS UP: FPC 3.0.1 stable branched off.

[zeljko]

On 01/10/2015 02:39 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 12:49:04 +0000
> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>
>>> Lazarus trunk at about 47318 is OK with FPC 2.7.1 29398 on SPARC using
>>> Debian "Lenny",
>>
>> Same combination on a PPC Mac raises an exception as below when the IDE
>> is told to Tools -> Options.
>>
>> TApplication.HandleException Error reading
>> ComponentsListView.Items.LazData: Stream read error
>>     Stack trace:
>>     $10118410  TREADER__READPROPERTY,  line 1279 of
>> /usr/local/src/fpc/fpc-trunk/rtl/objpas/classes/reader.inc
>>
>> Apart from that and the blank toolbar issue it appears OK. Does anybody
>> want me to get a backtrace and raise a bug?
>
> TListItems.ReadLazData reads a TLazItemInfo, which is a record:
>
>    TLazItemInfo = record // packing is not needed and not wanted
>      ImageIndex: Integer;
>      StateIndex: Integer;
>      OverlayIndex: Integer;
>      SubItemCount: Integer;
>    end;
>
> Without "packed" the layout depends on the platform. But the stream
> should be streamed the same on all platforms. So it needs "packed".
> OTOH someone added a comment that it is not wanted.
>
> Has someone an idea why "packed" is "is not needed and not wanted"?

Annotate that unit and see who wrote that ?

z.