[fpc-pascal] Printing of Pointer Type

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri Jul 18 10:28:49 CEST 2008


> On 17 Jul 2008, at 07:38, leledumbo wrote:
> 
> > Currently, the only way to print Pointer is to use SysUtils.Format  
> > or by
> > typecasting it to PtrUInt first. Why not let it possible to print it
> > directly? Any good reason for not allowing users to do it?
> 
> Because there are easy ways around it (as you mention) and the work to  
> implement and maintain this would probably outweigh the usefulness.

It might also interfere with existing features like writeln(pchar); ?



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