[fpc-pascal] defining record at runtime

[Marc Santhoff]

Am Dienstag, den 25.09.2007, 11:56 +0200 schrieb Jonas Maebe:
> On 25 Sep 2007, at 11:49, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> 
> > would it be possible to set up a memory structure according to fpc's
> > aligning rules that will be accepted as a record typed variable? Or  
> > does
> > fpc create some informational support items that would miss in this
> > case?
> >
> > I'm in doubt, since it is normally not possible (AFAIK, tell me if  
> > this
> > is wrong) to get structural information about a record type at runtime
> > (no RTTI).
> 
> Initialisation rtti is generated in case the record contains  
> reference counted types. It will be easier to answer your question if  
> you explain what you want to achieve and why.

I was a little fast in asking this question. It's about passing around
arbitrary anonymous record consisting of atomic types and strings.

But since in the end it all comes down to asking for a records members
and field count I have to use additional typing info and doing the
memory housekeeping by hand anyways. (If this hasn't changed since fpc
2.0.4)

So forgat about it.

Marc