Cox, Stuart TRAN:EX wrote: > > The _proper_ solution is to initialize the variable's contents and > then use it. The alternative is to substitute an alternative
That was the whole point about this thread. I used uninitialized varibles and the compiler correctly hinted about it. I then made use of FillChar to initialize those structure types, but then to my surprise the actual code I wrote to initialize thsoe variables were now the source of that hint! I still don't think this is right and I still think FillChar must be changed to out, at least in 'objfpc' mode. The first parameter in FillChar gets initialized by FillChar, so NO hint must be given. That's the whole point of FillChar. As I know the work-around is yet another wrapper function (which I have done), but the source of the problem still exists. Somebody did once attempt to correct the var parameter to out parameter in FillChar, but got to many errors. Probably not a high priority issue, so the problem was simply swept under the rug. As for the COM usage requirement (which I honestly believe is the minority use case in FPC). Then create a different FillChar -type procedure to handle those corner cases, or create a different procedure which allows structure types to be initialized without compiler hints. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
