[fpc-devel] Sorting tests

[Stefan Glienke]

In Delphi that would be the 
https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Alexandria/en/System.GetTypeKind 
intrinsic - I could not find that one in the 3.2.0 feature list.

Am 28.11.2022 um 11:17 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel:
>
> 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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