[fpc-pascal]Re: Behavior of system.New procedure
Jeff Pohlmeyer
yetanothergeek at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 3 09:05:18 CEST 2004
> > 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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