[fpc-devel]Still have problems with arrays...

[Jonas Maebe]

>- In fact the buffer is an array, but only in the program that calls the 
>procedure
>- so the procedure does only know the pointer to the buffer and the size 
>of it.
>- now I want to move the data within the procedure with an computed offset,
>e.g. move the data at @buffer+offset -> @buffer ... how can this be done?
>- Is there any complementary to the "move"-command that can work with
>pointers?

Just declare a type like

type
  pbyte = ^byte;

and do

move((pbyte(buffer)+offset)^,pbyte(buffer)^,size);

Note that you should use buffer instead of @buffer, since you say buffer 
is already a pointer.


Jonas