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From: Maurice Lombardi
Subject: New (gpc-20060325)
Date: 29 Mar 2006, 11:03:23

Adriaan van Os a écrit:

> The problem disappears when I change
> 
>     type PMemList = ^PMemList;
> 
> to
> 
>     type PMemList = ^Pointer;
> 
> in the function MemAvail in units/system.pas. I think that explains  it. 
> Apparently the stabs symbol generator doesn't like the
> 
>     type PMemList = ^PMemList

Indeed. What does this mean: a type is a pointer to himself

In a rather old version of gpc I found

type
   PMemList = ^TMemList;
   TMemList = record
     Next : PMemList
   end;

Which makes sense for me.
But this change has survived for many versions.

Maurice

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