On 28 Apr 2010, at 08:05, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
I am not sure whether this now cast in stone forever. Errors *can*
be corrected sometimes. ;-)
The behaviour of dynamic arrays will not be changed. At best, one day
we may add GPC-compatible array schema types (see http://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/Schema-Types.html
, the part under "As a GNU Pascal extension, the above can also be
written as"). These don't hide anything.
A simple solution would be to use the address the pointer is
pointing to (address of first element) for fillchar/move too.
It would break code like this:
type
tbytedynarr = array of byte;
var
a: array of tbytedynarr;
begin
setlength(a,10);
{ initialise all dynamic array elements of a}
...
{ now delete one of these elements }
finalise(a[4]);
{ and compact the array }
move(a[3],a[4],(length(a)-3)*sizeof(a[0]));
end.
With your change, move() would operate on the contents of a[3]
tbytedynarr instead of on the contents of "a" itself.
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