[fpc-pascal] Illogical automatic dereferencing

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, "Vinzent Höfler" said:
> > And the criticism about introducing Cisms in FPC/Delphi is also old. In
> > the past I would have joined you, but after a few non-trivial header
> > conversions and library conversions that pretty much died out.
> 
> Yes. But that's not the fault of the C-language. That's the fault of
> sloppy C-programmers. Keywords like "const" to express intent exist for
> more than 10 years now.

The problem of C is that the language is so poor that large codebases always
resort to macros and other tricks that make automated conversion unreliable.

But this was not meant as a problem of either C or Pascal, just a reality of
conversion from C to Pascal.
 
> > Likewise you also get
> > tired when you need to update some header (or code like zlib,jpeg) and
> > have to guess what the purpose and consequences of some pascallization
> > are.
> 
> That simply means, the code is not documented. Again: Not entirely C's fault.

Docs. Like anybody reads them.