- Error: Parser - Syntax Error
- An error against the Turbo Pascal language was encountered. This happens
typically when an illegal character is found in the sources file.
- Warning: Procedure type FAR ignored
- This is a warning. FAR is a construct for 8 or 16 bit programs. Since
the compile generates 32 bit programs, it ignores this directive.
- Warning: Procedure type NEAR ignored
- This is a warning. NEAR is a construct for 8 or 16 bit programs. Since
the compile generates 32 bit programs, it ignores this directive.
- Warning: Procedure type INTERRUPT ignored for not i386
- This is a warning. INTERRUPT is a i386 specific construct
and is ignored for other processors.
- Error: INTERRUPT procedure can't be nested
- An INTERRUPT procedure must be global.
- Warning: Procedure type arg1 ignored
- This is a warning. REGISTER,REINTRODUCE is ignored by FPC programs for now.
This is introduced first for Delphi compatibility.
- Error: Not all declarations of arg1 are declared with OVERLOAD
- When you want to use overloading using the OVERLOAD directive, then
all declarations need to have OVERLOAD specified.
- Error: No DLL File specified
- No longer in use.
- Error: Duplicate exported function name arg1
- Exported function names inside a specific DLL must all be different
- Error: Duplicate exported function index arg1
- Exported function names inside a specific DLL must all be different
- Error: Invalid index for exported function
- DLL function index must be in the range 1..$FFFF
- Warning: Relocatable DLL or executable arg1 debug info does not work, disabled.
-
- Warning: To allow debugging for win32 code you need to disable relocation with -WN option
- Stabs info is wrong for relocatable DLL or EXES use -WN
if you want to debug win32 executables.
- Error: Constructor name must be INIT
- You are declaring a constructor with a name which isn't init, and the
-Ss switch is in effect. See the -Ss switch (See Ss).
- Error: Destructor name must be DONE
- You are declaring a destructor with a name which isn't done, and the
-Ss switch is in effect. See the -Ss switch (See Ss).
- Error: Illegal open parameter
- You are trying to use the wrong type for an open parameter.
- Error: Procedure type INLINE not supported
- You tried to compile a program with C++ style inlining, and forgot to
specify the -Si option (See Si). The compiler doesn't support C++
styled inlining by default.
- Warning: Private methods shouldn't be VIRTUAL
- You declared a method in the private part of a object (class) as
virtual. This is not allowed. Private methods cannot be overridden
anyway.
- Warning: Constructor should be public
- Constructors must be in the 'public' part of an object (class) declaration.
- Warning: Destructor should be public
- Destructors must be in the 'public' part of an object (class) declaration.
- Note: Class should have one destructor only
- You can declare only one destructor for a class.
- Error: Local class definitions are not allowed
- Classes must be defined globally. They cannot be defined inside a
procedure or function
- Fatal: Anonym class definitions are not allowed
- An invalid object (class) declaration was encountered, i.e. an
object or class without methods that isn't derived from another object or
class. For example:
Type o = object
a : longint;
end;
will trigger this error.
- Error: The object arg1 has no VMT
-
- Error: Illegal parameter list
- You are calling a function with parameters that are of a different type than
the declared parameters of the function.
- Error: Wrong parameter type specified for arg no. arg1
- There is an error in the parameter list of the function or procedure.
The compiler cannot determine the error more accurate than this.
- Error: Wrong amount of parameters specified
- There is an error in the parameter list of the function or procedure,
the number of parameters is not correct.
- Error: overloaded identifier arg1 isn't a function
- The compiler encountered a symbol with the same name as an overloaded
function, but it isn't a function it can overload.
- Error: overloaded functions have the same parameter list
- You're declaring overloaded functions, but with the same parameter list.
Overloaded function must have at least 1 different parameter in their
declaration.
- Error: function header doesn't match the forward declaration arg1
- You declared a function with same parameters but
different result type or function modifiers.
- Error: function header arg1 doesn't match forward : var name changes arg2 => arg3
- You declared the function in the interface part, or with the
forward directive, but define it with a different parameter list.
- Note: Values in enumeration types have to be ascending
- Free Pascal allows enumeration constructions as in C. Given the following
declaration two declarations:
type a = (A_A,A_B,A_E:=6,A_UAS:=200);
type a = (A_A,A_B,A_E:=6,A_UAS:=4);
The second declaration would produce an error. A_UAS needs to have a
value higher than A_E, i.e. at least 7.
- Note: Interface and implementation names are different arg1 => arg2
- This note warns you if the implementation and interface names of a
functions are different, but they have the same mangled name. This
is important when using overloaded functions (but should produce no error).
- Error: With can not be used for variables in a different segment
- With stores a variable locally on the stack,
but this is not possible if the variable belongs to another segment.
- Error: function nesting > 31
- You can nest function definitions only 31 times.
- Error: range check error while evaluating constants
- The constants are out of their allowed range.
- Warning: range check error while evaluating constants
- The constants are out of their allowed range.
- Error: duplicate case label
- You are specifying the same label 2 times in a case statement.
- Error: Upper bound of case range is less than lower bound
- The upper bound of a case label is less than the lower bound and this
is useless
- Error: typed constants of classes are not allowed
- You cannot declare a constant of type class or object.
- Error: functions variables of overloaded functions are not allowed
- You are trying to assign an overloaded function to a procedural variable.
This isn't allowed.
- Error: string length must be a value from 1 to 255
- The length of a string in Pascal is limited to 255 characters. You are
trying to declare a string with length lower than 1 or greater than 255
(This is not true for Longstrings and AnsiStrings.
- Warning: use extended syntax of NEW and DISPOSE for instances of objects
- If you have a pointer a to a class type, then the statement
new(a) will not initialize the class (i.e. the constructor isn't
called), although space will be allocated. you should issue the
new(a,init) statement. This will allocate space, and call the
constructor of the class.
- Warning: use of NEW or DISPOSE for untyped pointers is meaningless
-
- Error: use of NEW or DISPOSE is not possible for untyped pointers
- You cannot use new(p) or dispose(p) if p is an untyped pointer
because no size is associated to an untyped pointer.
Accepted for compatibility in tp and delphi modes.
- Error: class identifier expected
- This happens when the compiler scans a procedure declaration that contains
a dot,
i.e., a object or class method, but the type in front of the dot is not
a known type.
- Error: type identifier not allowed here
- You cannot use a type inside an expression.
- Error: method identifier expected
- This identifier is not a method.
This happens when the compiler scans a procedure declaration that contains
a dot, i.e., a object or class method, but the procedure name is not a
procedure of this type.
- Error: function header doesn't match any method of this class arg1
- This identifier is not a method.
This happens when the compiler scans a procedure declaration that contains
a dot, i.e., a object or class method, but the procedure name is not a
procedure of this type.
- procedure/function arg1
- When using the -vp switch, the compiler tells you when it starts
processing a procedure or function implementation.
- Error: Illegal floating point constant
- The compiler expects a floating point expression, and gets something else.
- Error: FAIL can be used in constructors only
- You are using the FAIL instruction outside a constructor method.
- Error: Destructors can't have parameters
- You are declaring a destructor with a parameter list. Destructor methods
cannot have parameters.
- Error: Only class methods can be referred with class references
- This error occurs in a situation like the following:
Type :
Tclass = Class of Tobject;
Var C : TClass;
begin
...
C.free
Free is not a class method and hence cannot be called with a class
reference.
- Error: Only class methods can be accessed in class methods
- This is related to the previous error. You cannot call a method of an object
from a inside a class method. The following code would produce this error:
class procedure tobject.x;
begin
free
Because free is a normal method of a class it cannot be called from a class
method.
- Error: Constant and CASE types do not match
- One of the labels is not of the same type as the case variable.
- Error: The symbol can't be exported from a library
- You can only export procedures and functions when you write a library. You
cannot export variables or constants.
- Warning: An inherited method is hidden by arg1
- A method that is declared virtual in a parent class, should be
overridden in the descendent class with the override directive. If you
don't specify the override directive, you will hide the parent method;
you will not override it.
- Error: There is no method in an ancestor class to be overridden: arg1
- You try to override a virtual method of a parent class that doesn't
exist.
- Error: No member is provided to access property
- You specified no read directive for a property.
- Warning: Stored prorperty directive is not yet implemented
- The stored directive is not yet implemented
- Error: Illegal symbol for property access
- There is an error in the read or write directives for an array
property. When you declare an array property, you can only access it with
procedures and functions. The following code woud cause such an error.
tmyobject = class
i : integer;
property x [i : integer]: integer read I write i;
- Error: Cannot access a protected field of an object here
- Fields that are declared in a protected section of an object or class
declaration cannot be accessed outside the module wher the object is
defined, or outside descendent object methods.
- Error: Cannot access a private field of an object here
- Fields that are declared in a private section of an object or class
declaration cannot be accessed outside the module where the class is
defined.
- Warning: overloaded method of virtual method should be virtual: arg1
- If you declare overloaded methods in a class, then they should either all be
virtual, or none. You shouldn't mix them.
- Warning: overloaded method of non-virtual method should be non-virtual: arg1
- If you declare overloaded methods in a class, then they should either all be
virtual, or none. You shouldn't mix them.
- Error: overloaded methods which are virtual must have the same return type: arg1
- If you declare virtual overloaded methods in a class definition, they must
have the same return type.
- Error: EXPORT declared functions can't be nested
- You cannot declare a function or procedure within a function or procedure
that was declared as an export procedure.
- Error: methods can't be EXPORTed
- You cannot declare a procedure that is a method for an object as
exported. That is, your methods cannot be called from a C program.
- Error: call by var parameters have to match exactly: Got arg1 expected arg2
- When calling a function declared with var parameters, the variables in
the function call must be of exactly the same type. There is no automatic
type conversion.
- Error: Class isn't a parent class of the current class
- When calling inherited methods, you are trying to call a method of a strange
class. You can only call an inherited method of a parent class.
- Error: SELF is only allowed in methods
- You are trying to use the self parameter outside an object's method.
Only methods get passed the self parameters.
- Error: methods can be only in other methods called direct with type identifier of the class
- A construction like sometype.somemethod is only allowed in a method.
- Error: Illegal use of ':'
- You are using the format : (colon) 2 times on an expression that
is not a real expression.
- Error: range check error in set constructor or duplicate set element
- The declaration of a set contains an error. Either one of the elements is
outside the range of the set type, either two of the elements are in fact
the same.
- Error: Pointer to object expected
- You specified an illegal type in a New statement.
The extended synax of New needs an object as a parameter.
- Error: Expression must be constructor call
- When using the extended syntax of new, you must specify the constructor
method of the object you are trying to create. The procedure you specified
is not a constructor.
- Error: Expression must be destructor call
- When using the extended syntax of dispose, you must specify the
destructor method of the object you are trying to dispose of.
The procedure you specified is not a destructor.
- Error: Illegal order of record elements
- When declaring a constant record, you specified the fields in the wrong
order.
- Error: Expression type must be class or record type
- A with statement needs an argument that is of the type record
or class. You are using with on an expression that is not of
this type.
- Error: Procedures can't return a value
- In Free Pascal, you can specify a return value for a function when using
the exit statement. This error occurs when you try to do this with a
procedure. Procedures cannot return a value.
- Error: constructors and destructors must be methods
- You're declaring a procedure as destructor or constructor, when the
procedure isn't a class method.
- Error: Operator is not overloaded
- You're trying to use an overloaded operator when it isn't overloaded for
this type.
- Error: Impossible to overload assignment for equal types
- You can not overload assignment for types
that the compiler considers as equal.
- Error: Impossible operator overload
- The combination of operator, arguments and return type are
incompatible.
- Error: Re-raise isn't possible there
- You are trying to raise an exception where it isn't allowed. You can only
raise exceptions in an except block.
- Error: The extended syntax of new or dispose isn't allowed for a class
- You cannot generate an instance of a class with the extended syntax of
new. The constructor must be used for that. For the same reason, you
cannot call Dispose to de-allocate an instance of a class, the
destructor must be used for that.
- Error: Assembler incompatible with function return type
- You're trying to implement a assembler function, but the return type
of the function doesn't allow that.
- Error: Procedure overloading is switched off
- When using the -So switch, procedure overloading is switched off.
Turbo Pascal does not support function overloading.
- Error: It is not possible to overload this operator (overload = instead)
- You are trying to overload an operator which cannot be overloaded.
The following operators can be overloaded :
+, -, *, /, =, >, <, <=, >=, is, as, in, **, :=
- Error: Comparative operator must return a boolean value
- When overloading the = operator, the function must return a boolean
value.
- Error: Only virtual methods can be abstract
- You are declaring a method as abstract, when it isn't declared to be
virtual.
- Fatal: Use of unsupported feature!
- You're trying to force the compiler into doing something it cannot do yet.
- Error: The mix of CLASSES and OBJECTS isn't allowed
- You cannot derive objects and classes intertwined . That is,
a class cannot have an object as parent and vice versa.
- Warning: Unknown procedure directive had to be ignored: arg1
- The procedure direcive you secified is unknown. Recognised procedure
directives are cdecl, stdcall, popstack, pascal
register, export.
- Error: absolute can only be associated to ONE variable
- You cannot specify more than one variable before the absolute directive.
Thus, the following construct will provide this error:
Var Z : Longint;
X,Y : Longint absolute Z;
- absolute can only be associated a var or const
- The address of a absolute directive can only point to a variable or
constant. Therefore, the following code will produce this error:
Procedure X;
var p : longint absolute x;
- Error: absolute can only be associated a var or const
- The address of a absolute directive can only point to a variable or
constant. Therefore, the following code will produce this error:
Procedure X;
var p : longint absolute x;
- Error: Only ONE variable can be initialized
- You cannot specify more than one variable with a initial value
in Delphi syntax.
- Error: Abstract methods shouldn't have any definition (with function body)
- Abstract methods can only be declared, you cannot implement them. They
should be overridden by a descendant class.
- Error: This overloaded function can't be local (must be exported)
- You are defining a overloaded function in the implementation part of a unit,
but there is no corresponding declaration in the interface part of the unit.
- Warning: Virtual methods are used without a constructor in arg1
- If you declare objects or classes that contain virtual methods, you need
to have a constructor and destructor to initialize them. The compiler
encountered an object or class with virtual methods that doesn't have
a constructor/destructor pair.
- Macro defined: arg1
- When -vm is used, the compiler tells you when it defines macros.
- Macro undefined: arg1
- When -vm is used, the compiler tells you when it undefines macros.
- Macro arg1 set to arg2
- When -vm is used, the compiler tells you what values macros get.
- Info: Compiling arg1
- When you turn on information messages (-vi), the compiler tells you
what units it is recompiling.
- Parsing interface of unit arg1
- This tells you that the reading of the interface
of the current unit starts
- Parsing implementation of arg1
- This tells you that the code reading of the implementation
of the current unit, library or program starts
- Compiling arg1 for the second time
- When you request debug messages (-vd) the compiler tells you what
units it recompiles for the second time.
- Error: Array properties aren't allowed here
- You cannot use array properties at that point in the source.
- Error: No property found to override
- You want to overrride a property of a parent class, when there is, in fact,
no such property in the parent class.
- Error: Only one default property is allowed, found inherited default property in class arg1
- You specified a property as Default, but a parent class already has a
default property, and a class can have only one default property.
- Error: The default property must be an array property
- Only array properties of classes can be made default properties.
- Error: Virtual constructors are only supported in class object model
- You cannot have virtual constructors in objects. You can only have them
in classes.
- Error: No default property available
- You try to access a default property of a class, but this class (or one of
it's ancestors) doesn't have a default property.
- Error: The class can't have a published section, use the $M+ switch
- If you want a published section in a class definition, you must
use the {$M+} switch, whch turns on generation of type
information.
- Error: Forward declaration of class arg1 must be resolved here to use the class as ancestor
- To be able to use an object as an ancestor object, it must be defined
first. This error occurs in the following situation:
Type ParentClas = Class;
ChildClass = Class(ParentClass)
...
end;
Where ParentClass is declared but not defined.
- Error: Local operators not supported
- You cannot overload locally, i.e. inside procedures or function
definitions.
- Error: Procedure directive arg1 not allowed in interface section
- This procedure directive is not allowed in the interface section of
a unit. You can only use it in the implementation section.
- Error: Procedure directive arg1 not allowed in implementation section
- This procedure directive is not defined in the implementation section of
a unit. You can only use it in the interface section.
- Error: Procedure directive arg1 not allowed in procvar declaration
- This procedure directive cannot be part of a procedural or function
type declaration.
- Error: Function is already declared Public/Forward arg1
- You will get this error if a function is defined as forward twice.
Or it is once in the interface section, and once as a forward
declaration in the implmentation section.
- Error: Can't use both EXPORT and EXTERNAL
- These two procedure directives are mutually exclusive
- Error: NAME keyword expected
- The definition of an external variable needs a name clause.
- Warning: arg1 not yet supported inside inline procedure/function
- Inline procedures don't support this declaration.
- Warning: Inlining disabled
- Inlining of procedures is disabled.
- Info: Writing Browser log arg1
- When information messages are on, the compiler warns you when it
writes the browser log (generated with the {$Y+ } switch).
- Hint: Maybe pointer dereference is missing
- The compiler thinks that a pointer may need a dereference.
- Fatal: Selected assembler reader not supported
- The selected assembler reader (with {$ASMMODE xxx} is not
supported. The compiler can be compiled with or without support for a
particular assembler reader.
- Error: Procedure directive arg1 has conflicts with other directives
- You specified a procedure directive that conflicts with other directives.
for instance cdecl and pascal are mutually exclusive.
- Error: Calling convention doesn't match forward
- This error happens when you declare a function or procedure with
e.g. cdecl; but omit this directive in the implementation, or vice
versa. The calling convention is part of the function declaration, and
must be repeated in the function definition.
- Error: Register calling (fastcall) not supported
- The register calling convention, i.e., arguments are passed in
registers instead of on the stack is not supported. Arguments are always
passed on the stack.
- Error: Property can't have a default value
- Set properties or indexed properties cannot have a default value.
- Error: The default value of a property must be constant
- The value of a default declared property must be known at compile
time. The value you specified is only known at run time. This happens
.e.g. if you specify a variable name as a default value.
- Error: Symbol can't be published, can be only a class
- Only class type variables can be in a published section of a class
if they are not declared as a property.
- Error: That kind of property can't be published
- Properties in a published section cannot be array properties.
they must be moved to public sections. Properties in a published
section must be an ordinal type, a real type, strings or sets.
- Warning: Empty import name specified
- Both index and name for the import are 0 or empty
- Warning: An import name is required
- Some targets need a name for the imported procedure or a cdecl specifier
- Error: Function internal name changed after use of function
- This is an internal error; please report any occurrences of this error
to the Free Pascal team.
- Error: Division by zero
- There is a divsion by zero encounted
- Error: Invalid floating point operation
- An operation on two real type values produced an overflow or a division
by zero.
- Error: Upper bound of range is less than lower bound
- The upper bound of a case label is less than the lower bound and this
is not possible
- Warning: string "arg1" is longer than arg2
- The size of the constant string is larger than the size you specified in
string type definition
- Error: string length is larger than array of char length
- The size of the constant string is larger than the size you specified in
the array[x..y] of char definition
- Error: Illegal expression after message directive
- Free Pascal supports only integer or string values as message constants
- Error: Message handlers can take only one call by ref. parameter
- A method declared with the message-directive as message handler
can take only one parameter which must be declared as call by reference
Parameters are declared as call by reference using the var-directive
- Error: Duplicate message label: arg1
- A label for a message is used twice in one object/class
- Error: Self can be only an explicit parameter in message handlers
- The self parameter can be passed only explicitly in a method which
is declared as message method handler.
- Error: Threadvars can be only static or global
- Threadvars must be static or global, you can't declare a thread
local to a procedure. Local variables are always local to a thread,
because every thread has it's own stack and local variables
are stored on the stack
- Fatal: Direct assembler not supported for binary output format
- You can't use direct assembler when using a binary writer, choose an
other outputformat or use an other assembler reader
- Warning: Don't load OBJPAS unit manual, use mode switch instead
- You're trying to load the ObjPas unit manual from a uses clause. This is
not a good idea to do, you can better use the {$mode objfpc} or
{$mode delphi}
directives which load the unit automaticly
- Error: OVERRIDE can't be used in objects
- Override isn't support for objects, use VIRTUAL instead to override
a method of an anchestor object
- Error: Data types which requires initialization/finalization can't be used in variant records
- Some data type (e.g. ansistring) needs initialization/finalization
code which is implicitly generated by the compiler. Such data types
can't be used in the variant part of a record.
- Error: Resourcestrings can be only static or global
- Resourcestring can not be declared local, only global or using the static
directive.
- Error: Exit with argument can't be used here
- an exit statement with an argument for the return value can't be used here, this
can happen e.g. in try..except or try..finally blocks
- Error: The type of the storage symbol must be boolean
- If you specify a storage symbol in a property declaration, it must be of
the type boolean
- Error: This symbol isn't allowed as storage symbol
- You can't use this type of symbol as storage specifier in property
declaration. You can use only methods with the result type boolean,
boolean class fields or boolean constants
- Error: Only class which are compiled in $M+ mode can be published
- In the published section of a class can be only class as fields used which
are compiled in {$M+} or which are derived from such a class. Normally
such a class should be derived from TPersitent
- Error: Procedure directive expected
- When declaring a procedure in a const block you used a ; after the
procedure declaration after which a procedure directive must follow.
Correct declarations are:
const
p : procedure;stdcall=nil;
p : procedure stdcall=nil;
- Error: The value for a property index must be of an ordinal type
- The value you use to index a property must be of an ordinal type, for
example an integer or enumerated type.
- Error: Procedure name to short to be exported
- The length of the procedure/function name must be at least 2 characters
long. This is because of a bug in dlltool which doesn't parse the .def
file correct with a name of length 1.
- Error: No DEFFILE entry can be generated for unit global vars
-
- Error: Compile without -WD option
- You need to compile this file without the -WD switch on the
commandline
- Fatal: You need ObjFpc (-S2) or Delphi (-Sd) mode to compile this module
- You need to use {$mode objfpc} or {$mode delphi} to compile this file.
Or use the equivalent commandline switches -S2 or -Sd.
- Error: Can't export with index under arg1
- Exporting of functions or procedures with a specified index is not
support on all targets. The only platforms currently supporting
export with index are OS/2 and Win32.
- Error: Exporting of variables is not supported under arg1
- Exporting of variables is not support on all targets. The only platform
currently supporting export of variables is Win32.
- Error: Type "arg1" can't be used as array index type
- Types like DWord or Int64 aren't allowed as array index type
This section lists the errors that are generated by the inline assembler reader.
They are not the messages of the assembler itself.
