[fpc-pascal] Subscript pointers

Hairy Pixels genericptr at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 16:49:19 CEST 2023



> On Jun 22, 2023, at 8:41 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> It's for easier pointer math, a construct which has been used in FPC since day 1 (AFAIK).
> Use with care, since no boundary checks are done.

You mean instead of doing p + 1 or you can do p[1]? It may have been used for C compatibility too since an array in C is just a pointer. 

Regards,
Ryan Joseph



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