[fpc-devel] Aligned dynamic arrays

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 10:03:12 -0400
Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com> wrote:

> > 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? 

I guess you mean auto dereferencing.
{$ModeSwitch AutoDeref}

> That would have saved me some
> headache in the past if I knew this.

Mattias