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<blockquote type="cite">does Advanced Record constructor
automatically zero all the memory space of that record?</blockquote>
No, it does not. Neither in Delphi nor in FPC.<br>
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Am 24.09.2013 12:36, schrieb Dennis Poon:<br>
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<font size="+1">if not, is there a clean and easy way to
initialize the
entire record memory space to zeros e.g. <br>
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constructor TMyRecord.Create(TheValue : Integer);<br>
begin<br>
FillChar(self, sizeof(Self), 0);<br>
Value := TheVal;<br>
end;<br>
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<font size="+1"><font size="+1">You can use either FillChar as you
did or <font size="+1">use "Self <font size="+1">:=
Default(TTest);"</font></font></font></font> (default is a
compiler intrinsics that returns a 0 value of the type you passed
in, e.g. Nil for classes, '' for strings, 0 for ordinals and for
records all fields are set to 0)<br>
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Is there a Self variable for advanced record
methods/constructors ?<br>
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<font size="+1">Yes.</font><br>
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By the way, is there an ultimate inherited constructor "Create"
for all
advanced record types?</font><br>
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No.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Sven<br>
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