[fpc-pascal] Freepascal 2.2.0 released

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Tue, 11 Sep 2007, schreef Marc Santhoff:

> Am Montag, den 10.09.2007, 12:56 +0200 schrieb Joost van der Sluis:
> 
> Since this page isn't already up:
> 
> >  http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.2.0
> 
> Can someone please give a short explanation of this item?:
> 
> >   * pointer[low..high] syntax to pass C-style pointer arrays to procedures
> >     using open arrays

If you allocate dynamic sized structures using pointers it was previously 
troublesome to pass this to open arrays, i.e. you can now do:

procedure abc(const x:array of byte);

begin
end;

var b:Pbyte;

begin
  abc(b[0..7]);
end;

However, it also works with normal arrays (and strings) you you can now 
pass partial arrays:

procedure abc(const x:array of byte);

begin
end;

var b:array[0..15] of byte;

begin
  abc(b[0..9]);
end;


Daniël