J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
Mo., 28. Nov. 2022, 11:01:

> Just want to clarify something... if a type is managed, can it be safely
> typecast to a pointer in all instances and on all platforms? (The
> purpose being so if I wanted to swap two items, so there's no overall
> change in the reference counters, I can simply swap the pointers...
> there's no dereferencing involved!)
>

No, managed does not automatically mean that it's a Pointer based type.
Records with management operators, Variants and Windows WideString are
managed as well.

Regards,
Sven

>
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