[fpc-devel] Aligned dynamic arrays
Ryan Joseph
ryan at thealchemistguild.com
Sat Mar 30 15:03:12 CET 2019
> On Mar 30, 2019, at 9:55 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> You are not required to dereference pointers to write to them.
>> var
>> P: PPoint;
>> begin
>> P := AlignedArray[0];
>> P.X := 3; // can be okay
>> AlignedArray[0].Y := 4; // can be okay as well
>
> That only works in {$mode delphi}
Oh that’s why! How does this work in Delphi mode without pointers and why wasn’t it added to ObjFPC mode? That would have saved me some headache in the past if I knew this.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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