Where is the description of all of the compiler options?

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5 total messages Started by John Herbster Thu, 29 May 2008 23:52

#38

Author: John Herbster
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 23:52

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Where is the description of all of the compiler options for Delphi 7?

Especially for those like
{$WARNINGS ON}
...
{$WARN IMPLICIT_IMPORT ON}
{$WARN HPPEMIT_IGNORED ON}
{$WARN NO_RETVAL ON}
{$WARN USE_BEFORE_DEF ON}
{$WARN FOR_LOOP_VAR_UNDEF ON}
{$WARN UNIT_NAME_MISMATCH ON}
{$WARN NO_CFG_FILE_FOUND ON}
{$WARN MESSAGE_DIRECTIVE ON}
{$WARN IMPLICIT_VARIANTS ON}
{$WARN UNICODE_TO_LOCALE ON}
... but also 
{$A8,B-,C+,D+,E-,F-,G+,H+,I+,J+,K-,L+,M-,N+,O-,P+,Q+,R+,S-,T-,U-,V+,W-,X+,Y+,Z1}
{$MINSTACKSIZE $00004000}
{$MAXSTACKSIZE $00100000}
{$IMAGEBASE $00400000}
{$APPTYPE GUI}

TIA, JohnH

Re: Where is the description of all of the compiler options?

#39

Author: Pieter Zijlstra
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 01:12

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John Herbster wrote:

> Where is the description of all of the compiler options for Delphi 7?
> 
> Especially for those like
> {$WARNINGS ON}
> ...
> {$WARN IMPLICIT_IMPORT ON}
> {$WARN HPPEMIT_IGNORED ON}
> {$WARN NO_RETVAL ON}
> {$WARN USE_BEFORE_DEF ON}
> {$WARN FOR_LOOP_VAR_UNDEF ON}
> {$WARN UNIT_NAME_MISMATCH ON}
> {$WARN NO_CFG_FILE_FOUND ON}
> {$WARN MESSAGE_DIRECTIVE ON}
> {$WARN IMPLICIT_VARIANTS ON}
> {$WARN UNICODE_TO_LOCALE ON}
> ... but also 
> {$A8,B-,C+,D+,E-,F-,G+,H+,I+,J+,K-,L+,M-,N+,O-,P+,Q+,R+,S-,T-,U-,V+,W-
> ,X+,Y+,Z1} {$MINSTACKSIZE $00004000}
> {$MAXSTACKSIZE $00100000}
> {$IMAGEBASE $00400000}
> {$APPTYPE GUI}

Most of them (except for the $warn ones) are covered in the help file,
just go to the Index tab, type $-followed by what you're looking for.

-- 
Pieter

Re: Where is the description of all of the compiler options?

#40

Author: John Herbster
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 01:34

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"Pieter Zijlstra" <p.zylstra.notthis@hccnet.nl> wrote
>> Where is the description of all of the compiler options for Delphi 7?

> Most of them (except for the $warn ones) are covered in the help file,
> just go to the Index tab, type $-followed by what you're looking for.

Pieter,

With my D7 installation, from the index tab, entering "$" brings up a list of 30 or 40 "topics" from "About string parameters" to "$WEAKEPACKAGEUNIT & DENY PACKAGEUNIT both specified".  The topics include "Compiler directives", which tells about them as a group but not what each does. 

Entering "$-" takes me only to the help page for "Currency and date/time formatting variables"

Thanks for trying, JohnH

Re: Where is the description of all of the compiler options?

#41

Author: Pieter Zijlstra
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 01:56

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John Herbster wrote:

> 
> "Pieter Zijlstra" <p.zylstra.notthis@hccnet.nl> wrote
> >> Where is the description of all of the compiler options for Delphi
> 7?
> 
> > Most of them (except for the $warn ones) are covered in the help
> > file, just go to the Index tab, type $-followed by what you're
> > looking for.
> 
> Pieter,
> 
> With my D7 installation, from the index tab, entering "$" brings up a
> list of 30 or 40 "topics" from "About string parameters" to
> "$WEAKEPACKAGEUNIT & DENY PACKAGEUNIT both specified".  The topics
> include "Compiler directives", which tells about them as a group but
> not what each does.

Hmm, in D7 it gives me about 80+ items. Just to be sure, since I'm
translating it from a Dutch Windows XP, "Index" is the second tab in
the "help-topics" window.

Here, I get:

&(dollar symbol)
$ compiler prefix
$A
$ALIGN
$APPTYPE
...
$WRITEABLECONST
$X
$Y
$YD
$Z

-- 
Pieter

Re: Where is the description of all of the compiler options?

#42

Author: John Herbster
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 09:08

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"Pieter Zijlstra" <p.zylstra.notthis@hccnet.nl> wrote
> Hmm, in D7 it gives me about 80+ items. Just to be sure, since I'm
> translating it from a Dutch Windows XP, "Index" is the second tab in
> the "help-topics" window.
>
> Here, I get:
> 
> &(dollar symbol)
> $ compiler prefix
> $A
> $ALIGN
> $APPTYPE

Pieter,
Thanks!  That looks like it ought to look.  It may be my D7 installation 
CD.   My previous installation from this same CD was also created a
file with missing topics.  Don't worry about it.  Most of the file is there.
Rgds, JohnH

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