[fpc-devel] Sorting tests

[J. Gareth Moreton]

This is something I want to experiment with now.  Still waiting on 
approval of the TArrayHelper sort merge request though before I start 
playing around with reference counts.

Just want to clarify something... if a type is managed, can it be safely 
typecast to a pointer in all instances and on all platforms? (The 
purpose being so if I wanted to swap two items, so there's no overall 
change in the reference counters, I can simply swap the pointers... 
there's no dereferencing involved!)

Kit

On 28/11/2022 09:43, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote:
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> On Mon, 28 Nov 2022, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote:
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>> Stefan Glienke via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
>> Mo., 28. Nov. 2022, 00:20:
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>>> Probably not unless FPC has something similar to
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>>> https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Alexandria/en/System.IsManagedType 
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>>> (that function among a few others is compiletime evaluated).
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>> It's supported since 3.2.0: 
>> https://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_3.2
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> And now it is also documented. Tomorrow on the daily docs...
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> Michael.
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