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

[Luiz Américo]

Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:
>>>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?
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>>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.
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> As a shortcut to initialize all fields to zero (or nil)
> you can just do this:
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>   New(ARec);
>   FillChar(ARec^, SizeOf(TRec), #0);
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Thanks for the responses.

Luiz