[DUG] Is it a bug in latest version of Delphi?

[Karl Reynolds]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jolyon Smith <jsmith at deltics.co.nz> wrote:
> Win API returns -1 to indicate “an error”.  Any error.  Not a specific
> error.  Certainly not specifically a list index error.

Pardon me for being pedantic, but while I agree with everything else
you said, I feel the need to reiterate that -1 isn't actually returned
to *indicate* an error (and you mentioned the conflict between an
error result and a valid result yourself at one point). It's just the
value returned when an error has occured. And yes, that means the VCL
code is wrong.

GetLastError... I won't say it again, promise. ;)

Cheers,
Karl