Where is the description of all of the compiler options?

John Herbster

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May 29, 2008, 7:52:36 PM5/29/08

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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

Pieter Zijlstra

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May 30, 2008, 9:12:51 PM5/30/08

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John Herbster wrote:

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.

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Pieter

John Herbster

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May 30, 2008, 9:34:11 PM5/30/08

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"Pieter Zijlstra" <p.zylstr...@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

Pieter Zijlstra

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May 30, 2008, 9:56:43 PM5/30/08

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John Herbster wrote:

>
> "Pieter Zijlstra" <p.zylstr...@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

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Pieter

John Herbster

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May 31, 2008, 5:08:31 AM5/31/08

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"Pieter Zijlstra" <p.zylstr...@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