[fpc-devel] Record types with unbounded trailing data

[Jonas Maebe]

On 25/06/2019 19:19, Ben Grasset wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:41 AM Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org <mailto:michael at freepascal.org>> wrote:
> 
>     If you want to get rid of warnings, define it as
>     LOGPALETTE = record
>         palVersion : WORD;
>         palNumEntries : WORD;
>         palPalEntry : array[0..(MAXINT div sizeof(PALETTEENTRY)] of
>     PALETTEENTRY;
>     end;
> 
> 
> Wouldn't that explicitly make the LOGPALETTE type unavoidably gigantic,
> though?

Yes, but whether it's an array declared with 1 element or with (MAXINT
div sizeof(PALETTEENTRY) element, you will never declare an actual
variable that has this type. You will always use pointers to this type.


Jonas