[fpc-devel] Thoughts on being able to declare "pointer-to-type" parameters directly in method signatures?

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 09.06.2019 um 17:23 schrieb Ryan Joseph:
> 
> 
>> On Jun 9, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Florian Klämpfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> And? It is obvious that FPC has to know what's the base type of a pointer else it couldn't do type checking.
> 
> I think all he means is this:
> 
> type
>   TInt = ^integer;
> 
> procedure DoThis(i: TInt);
> begin
> end;
> 
> var
>   a: ^integer;
> begin
>   DoThis(a0);
> 
> He just wants function parameters to declare the new pointer type inline.

Yes, but this has *nothing* to do with the output of -vp. Nothing.