Quote Originally Posted by cragwolf
The information is identical in earlier versions of the ref.pdf document. This suggests that if the compiler didn't complain about your code in earlier versions of FPC, then this must have been a bug in those earlier versions which has been fixed in v2.0.0. I can't access the Free Pascal web site at the moment or I could check their bug list to see if it was indeed a bug.
Maybe it's just me then, getting things confused. I put it down to old age.