Jürgen Hestermann schrieb: >> David Emerson schrieb: >> I *am* checking sizes before the move, which is why it surprised me >> that things were going out of bounds -- the trouble is I forgot the >> array index [0] > > Yes, that happens quite often. Unfortunately, Borland gave up the clear > und predictable context independend Pascal syntax when implementing > dynamic data structures.
Simply because dereferencing a dyn. arrays makes no sense because it is more than just a simply data collection. > Dynamic arrays are actually *pointers* to the > data while static arrays are the data itself. But the pointers of > dynamic arrays are dereferenced automatically when used except for > fundamental byte functions like move or fillchar. This is plainly wrong. When indexing a dyn. array, the compiler generates the correct code to access the data, no more no less. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
