[fpc-devel] Sorting tests

[J. Gareth Moreton]

Well that spoils that idea!  Is there any way to determine if it's 
pointer-based so you can swap references instead of going through the 
whole penalty of creating and destroying temporary objects?

Kit

On 28/11/2022 10:07, Sven Barth wrote:
> J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> 
> schrieb am Mo., 28. Nov. 2022, 11:01:
>
>     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!)
>
>
> No, managed does not automatically mean that it's a Pointer based 
> type. Records with management operators, Variants and Windows 
> WideString are managed as well.
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
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