At 13:05 5-5-2005, you wrote:
On 05 May 2005, at 13:06, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Dynamic arrays are an internal type of pascal. C doesn't know dynamic arrays. That it works with delphi is pure luck.
Sorry, but pascal dynamic arrays are just pointers.
Totally wrong. They are a reference counted type.
Yes, but aren't they "just" C-style arrays (i.e. pointers) in the same way that ansistrings are "just" pchars?
It is also calling convention related how C expects arrays to be pushed. From the example:
// extern "C" __cdecl __declspec(dllexport) int get_array(double a[], double b[], int size, double val);
Here the array is expected on the stack on some i386 targets. Using 'double *a' is less ambigious, because it then always needs to be a pointer.
Peter
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