[fpc-pascal] Warning "Local variable seems to be not initialized" on dyn array

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2015-03-09 um 17:40 schrieb Jonas Maebe:
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> On 09 Mar 2015, at 17:25, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
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>> I get a warning that a local dynamic array variable is not initialized.
>> Aren't such managed types initialized by default?
>> On http://wiki.freepascal.org/Dynamic_array it says:
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>> Actually, dynamic arrays are pointers with automatic dereferencing. They are initialized to *nil* automatically.
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>> So why the warning?
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> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24601#c75617 (and the comment below + use -vq to see warning numbers, and -vmXXXX to block a particular warning number).
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Thanks for the answer.
But still: Why is there such a warning for managed types at all?
Dynamic arrays are initialized by default so the warning text is simply wrong.
It IS initialized and the compiler knows this.