Contrary to popular believe the VMT for a generic needs to be at least generated so that check for inherited methods can be done correctly. This does however not mean that the VMT is written to the object file which is handled at a completely different place. Fixes Mantis #26193.

pdecl.pas, types_dec:
  * invoke the VMT builder for generic classes as well

+ added test

git-svn-id: trunk@27869 -

.gitattributes

@@ -12747,6 +12747,7 @@ tests/webtbf/tw25861.pp svneol=native#text/plain
 tests/webtbf/tw25862.pp svneol=native#text/plain
 tests/webtbf/tw25915.pp svneol=native#text/pascal
 tests/webtbf/tw25951.pp svneol=native#text/pascal
+tests/webtbf/tw26193.pp svneol=native#text/pascal
 tests/webtbf/tw2657.pp svneol=native#text/plain
 tests/webtbf/tw2670.pp svneol=native#text/plain
 tests/webtbf/tw2719.pp svneol=native#text/plain

compiler/pdecl.pas

@@ -798,8 +798,7 @@ implementation
 
                     { Build VMT indexes, skip for type renaming and forward classes }
                     if (hdef.typesym=newtype) and
-                       not(oo_is_forward in tobjectdef(hdef).objectoptions) and
+                       not(oo_is_forward in tobjectdef(hdef).objectoptions) then
-                       not(df_generic in hdef.defoptions) then
                       begin
                         vmtbuilder:=TVMTBuilder.Create(tobjectdef(hdef));
                         vmtbuilder.generate_vmt;

tests/webtbf/tw26193.pp

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ %FAIL }
+
+program tw26193;
+
+{$mode delphi}
+
+type
+  TA<T> = class
+    function Foo: Boolean; virtual; abstract;
+  end;
+
+  TB<T> = class(TA<byte>)
+    // Missing (!) error: There is no method in an ancestor class to be overridden: "Foo;"
+    procedure Foo; override;
+  end;
+
+procedure TB<T>.Foo;
+begin
+end;
+
+begin
+end.
+