[fpc-devel] Aligned dynamic arrays

[J. Gareth Moreton]

 I always get nervous of mode switches because it's hard to remember them
or realise they exist, and it feels a little hacky, like it's a kind of
compatibility setting more than anything else.  Like at one point, I
preferred there was an explicit way to set a type's alignment so there's no
ambiguity or risk of bugs if a different setting is used or otherwise
overridden.  e.g.

 type  TVector4f = packed record
     x, y, z, w: Single;
   end align 16;

 Just my thought.

 Kit

 On Sat 30/03/19 17:31 , Mattias Gaertner via fpc-devel
fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org sent:
 On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 12:57:48 -0400 
 Ryan Joseph  wrote: 

 > > On Mar 30, 2019, at 12:53 PM, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-devel 
 > >  wrote: 
 > > 
 > > I guess you mean auto dereferencing. 
 > > {$ModeSwitch AutoDeref} 
 > 
 > Yeah I just found this by looking around in the compiler. Mind. 
 > Blown. No idea that existed! 

 And some people still ask for more modeswitches... 

 Mattias 
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