[fpc-pascal] SetLength warnings - request

[Jonas Maebe]

On 02/01/19 17:05, Benito van der Zander wrote:

>> 1) Dynamic arrays are initialised with nil, but that is an 
>> implementation detail (required by the fact that they are reference 
>> counted: if they would contain random data, that would cause crashes)
> 
> If there ever is a fpc version that does not initialize them with nil, 
> then it could show a warning. Till then it is pointless.

The compiler cannot distinguish between the following cases:
* the programmer knows the compiler initialises it with empty/nil, and 
in this particular case that happens to be the exact value that is wanted
* the programmer forgot to initialise the variable with an initial value

They are separate hints/warnings so that they can be disabled separately 
by programmers who know they will always want an empty string/array as 
initial value in case of managed types.


Jonas