Can I recompile the .PAS files used by the Delphi IDE?

Question

I am familiar with Jeff Atwood\'s article about how errors are always the programmer\'s fault, but I believe I have really and truly found a bug in a Delphi .pas file.

Answer 1

"I am familiar with Jeff Atwood's article about how errors are always the programmer's fault, but I believe I have really and truly found a bug in a Delphi .pas file"

Are you joking me? With Delphi you always blame Borland first :) Something is weird, go Google it and see if it is a Delphi bug. Only if cannot find any similar reports you site down and check your code line by line.

After I reinstall Delphi I have to patch the original PAS files in 6 (six) places. There are tons of bugs that appear on a fresh Delphi installation and can be easily reproduced. Delphi (the one that we all love) is full of bugs. There is an entire history created around this. There are so many people releasing external patches (such as http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/?page_id=288) and Borland/Imprise/GoGear/Embarcadero keep ignoring them. It is a true wonder they included FastMM in their release.

Anyway, I have recompiled those PAS files and now I replace the original DCUs with the patched ones.