[fpc-devel] Sorting tests

[Stefan Glienke]

Nevermind - I guess there is: 
https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/gettypekind.html

Am 28.11.2022 um 12:35 schrieb Stefan Glienke via fpc-devel:
>
> 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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