Undocumented Delphi 8 predefined conditional symbols

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Undocumented Delphi 8 predefined conditional symbols

chuacw

Tue, 11 May 2004 @ 7:00 AM

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The Delphi 8 compiler introduces the following predefined conditional symbols.

Symbol	Description
CIL	Indicates the machine code model, roughly corresponding to CPU386.
CLR	Indicates OS / runtime environment, roughly corresponding to Win32.
MANAGEDCODE	Indicates managed code environment.
VER160	Indicates this is version 16.0 of the Delphi compiler.

Usage:

{$IFDEF ConditionalSymbolAbove}
...
{$ENDIF}

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chuacw

26 Nov 2004 5:47 AM

These features *are* documented.

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