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From: hvlstud2@sci.kun.nl (Margo Pulles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Question about turbo pascal 5.5
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Date: 7 Feb 91 17:02:16 GMT
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Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Bug in TP 5.5?
This is Version 2.00 of my question. This time a more enhanced
specification.

When I use Turbo Pascal 5.5, I have the following problem :
I can declare an OBJECT x on the following way :

TYPE
  x  = OBJECT
         { . . . }
         CONSTRUCTOR Init(Name : PathStr); { Use Dos PathStr }
         { . . . }
       END;

VAR
  y : x;

I first called the method Init this way :

WITH y DO
  BEGIN
    Init(LocalName);
    { . . . }
  END;

But that didn't work. (It compiled well). When I looked at it using
Turbo Debugger 1.5, I saw that Name contained rubbish after the call.
(Inside the method Init). But when I called Init using

y.Init(LocalName);

everything was allright.

You have to know that x is declared in an unit wich is in the overlay
section.

Did anybody have this problem before, is it bad programming, or
contains TP 5.5 a bug?

I'm waiting fo your answers.


Gert van het Slot
(e-mail : fcc@chem.ruu.nl)

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