[fpc-pascal]Behavior of system.New procedure

[Jérémie LEFRANCOIS]

You are not to presume anything.

Perhaps it will be random, perhaps it will be zero filled - depends on the 
compiler amongst other things.
You must do as if it contains the most unexpected data, and therefore 
initialise the fields *yourself*, and the safer is to do it the quicker.

Regards.

En réponse à Luiz Américo <pascalive at bol.com.br>:

> If someone can help me with this...
> Take the following example:
> 
> type
> TRec = record
>    Apointer:Pointer;
>    AInt:Integer;
> end;
> PRec = ^TRec;
> 
> var
>    Arec:PRec;
>    Return:Boolean;
> 
> begin
>    New(ARec);
>    Return:=ARec^.APointer = nil; (Always True ?)
>    Return:=ARec^.Aint = 0; (Always True ?)
> end.
> 
> 
> My question is:
> after allocating a new instance for Arec with New proc, the record
> fields (APointer and Aint) will be  always zero filled or will receive
> random values?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Luiz

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