Hello FPC-Pascal, Sunday, April 25, 2010, 5:38:48 PM, you wrote:
JH> But currently move *does* handle dynamic arrays differently JH> than other procedures. You can use an array as parameter for a JH> function or procedure and it does not matter whether it's dynamic JH> or not. So the identifier means the array in both cases. But this JH> does *not* apply to move or fillchar! That's illogical. I think there is a great difference between normal arrays and dynamic ones, in normal arrays: A: array [0..1] of integer; move (a[0],somewhere^,8); is OK, but in dynamic arrays it should be: A: array of integer; SetLength(A,2); move (a[0],somewhere^,4); move (a[1],(somewhere+4)^,4); Because I think dynamic arrays does not garantee that all elements are together in a big chunck. So something like "move (A,somewhere^,Length(A)*sizeof(AElement))" is nonsense. -- Best regards, José _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal