> On Sep 17, 2020, at 9:59 AM, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel
> <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> type generic TMyArray<T> = record
> Data: ^T;
> Length: PtrUInt;
> end;
>
> The compiler will complain about T being an unresolved forward declaration.
> Outside of specifying a second parameter for the pointer type (which would be
> a little unfriendly for third-party users), there isn't really a way around
> this.
>
To be clear all the features work but it's not as optimized as dynamic arrays
and could be cumbersome with arrays of records.
I think you're supposed to redeclare a pointer to T:
type generic TMyArray<T> = record
type
TP = ^T;
public
Data: TP;
Length: PtrUInt;
end;
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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