Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Paul Ishenin wrote:
Compiler will add a flag for each var/const argument that they dont
require that checks.
Can't the compiler simply initialize structured types by default?
Initialize char arrays to empty strings, other structures like pointers
to nil, byte arrays to #0 etc..?
After all, this is already done for AnsString, Integer type, real types
etc...
I thought it does that?
But FillChar is the same lowlevel like move. (IMHO)
Move doesn't care about ref-counts. And if you use move, you must start
to take care of refcounts yourself. Ani if you have to care about them,
you need a fillchar that doesn't affect them....
But we start discussing 2 different unctiuons
FillChar
FillcharWithPreFinalization
they do differrent things, both have a use case.
The initial problem of this thread was not: Fillchar doesn't finalize
ref-counted types
It was about the hints.
What is wanted is a Fillchar (that does not care about ref-counts, as it
is currently) but that does not hint neither. => that is behaviour of a
var param, but without hint.
If you want Fillchar with previous finalization of ref counted types,
then FillChar is not the function you need.
Fillchar is as lowlevel as move / and I wonder: does move give hints
too, if the targer is not initalized?
Martin
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