[fpc-pascal] Array slices

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sun, 11 Nov 2007, schreef Christos Chryssochoidis:

> Hello all,
> =

> A while ago in one of the FPC lists I had read that FPC 2.2.0 supports ar=
ray
> slices. So I made a program to test this feature:
> =

> > program Test_Slices;
> > =

> > procedure Test(C :  array of Integer);
> > begin
> > end;
> > =

> > var
> > A : array of Integer;
> > B : array of Integer;
> > =

> > begin
> > setLength(A,6);
> > Test(A[2..4]); // This works
> > setlength(B,6);
> > // B :=3D A[4..6]  // Compilation error if I uncomment this line
> > end.
> =

> The above code, as it is, compiles without problem. However if I uncommen=
t the
> last line, I get a compilation error:

 =

> Are array slices only supported as arguments to subprograms calls?
> I 'm using FPC 2.2.0 on Mac OS X Intel.

At this time: yes, you can pass only to open arrays. In the future, the =

above construction will be supported. It is of course not correct that =

this causes a compiler crash and this is a bug.

Dani=EBl