[fpc-pascal] Name of a var

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 2011-11-22 11:13, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>>
>> Typing
>>
>> VarName:=nameofvar( counter );
>>
>> is more work than
>>
>> VarName:='counter';
>>
>> So what's the point ?
>
> Maybe there is a use for it in the dbugintf unit?
>
> eg:
>
>  SendInteger(counter)

No, if I was to program it using varname, I would get the name of the parameter
in the function SendInteger.

You need the address of the variable that was passed to SendInteger.
Obviously, there is no way the compiler can know that.

Michael.