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Or, you could just treat them as-is as RCDATA resources instead. Any data can be stored in RCDATA, it is just raw bytes. Now, whether you can load a PNG image from an RCDATA resource at runtime is another issue, depending on HOW you load it.

It makes no sense, especially if a compiler directive instructs otherwise. My guess is that there is some badly written structure behind the scenes and it would be too much effort to "fix" it now. This is typically when we start to name our bugs, celebrate their birthday, call them a feature and see where they evolve to 🙂

If either of the operands in a boolean expression is a variant then both operands are converted to variants. This is documented. Expressions on variants are evaluated using intrinsic functions implemented in system.variants.pas (_VarOr, _VarAnd, _VarAdd, etc. etc.). Because of the result of an expression isn't known until these functions has been called the compiler can't do short circuit evaluation on the expression. Look at the asm generated and it will all make sense No offense taken, but don't cry wolf just because the dog meows.

Yes, I phrased myself incorrectly. I am pretty damn sure it would cause havoc now, after these many years. What I meant in the beginning to fix it [...], thanks for pointing that out. All I know is I had an imagination on how things should work and an urgent bug to fix. Caused me a serious headache. I'm sorry if I offended anyone by calling Earl a bug 🙂

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http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/delphiAndcpp2009/HelpUpdate2/EN/html/devcommon/expressions_xml.html "Note: If either operand involves a Variant, the compiler always performs complete evaluation (even in the {$B} state)." It's a feature.