[fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

[Henry Vermaak]

2009/10/11 "Vinzent Höfler" <JeLlyFish.software at gmx.net>:
> Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com>:
>
>> Thanks for the explanation, I was under the impression that arrays in
>> Pascal were similar to C.  How do you explain the "automatic"
>> dereferencing with a pointer to an array that Jürgen is talking about?
>
> Those are dynamic arrays, IOW pointers disguised as arrays. This is part of the problem, if not the problem itself.

No, it happens with static arrays,  if you set pia := @ia, ia[x] and
pia[x] will give you the same result (in delphi mode, at least).

Henry