[fpc-pascal]Re: Behavior of system.New procedure

[Jeff Pohlmeyer]

> > 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?

> 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.


As a shortcut to initialize all fields to zero (or nil)
you can just do this:

  New(ARec);
  FillChar(ARec^, SizeOf(TRec), #0);




	
		
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