On 10 September 2012 10:14, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Did you really write "&"? The address operator is "@", but this won't make > your code work anyway. If you did indeed write "&" (which is for escaping > keywords) you do indeed only pass the 32nd element to your function.
:blush: I did indeed. That would explain it! > Dynamic arrays are internally pointers to an array (more or less). So if you > would use "@buf[32]" you would be passing the address of one element to a > function that takes an array. If you know the amount of bytes you want to > copy then you should use "Copy(buf, 32, count)" as argument for decompress_r > or if you don't know the amount you should change your function from "array > of Byte" to "PByte" and pass the address of the 32nd byte using "@buf[32]". > The remaining part of the function can stay the same. Thank you, Sven, that will help a lot. Many thanks, Dave -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
