[fpc-pascal] Initialization of packed record local variables?

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:52:37 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

>> Does not the FPC compiler reserve and zero the memory area of such
>> variables?
>
>No.

Does thios mean that the memory is reserved but not cleared or does it
mean that memory is not reserved at all?

>
>> In any case I am using Move() to fill the variables with data from a
>> binary buffer, maybe the compiler is not smart enough to detect this
>> and remove the warning?
>
>The compiler has no way of knowing if your move statement initializes the
>full record.
>
Well, if it has no way of knowing that the record is stuffed with data
then why does it issue a notice that it seems uninitialized?
Are there other commands it does detect as initialization of the
variable?


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden