I am a bit confused over the way to specify parameters to function
calls as var or not....
I have the following constructs:
type
TByteArr = array of byte;
I have a buffer class that receives data from a serial port and now I
want to extract data from this buffer to various types of variables in
the main application class.
So far I have managed all the simple variable types successfully, the
only remaining part is the handling of a body of varying length of
data. In my main class the data will wind up in a dynamic array of
bytes (TByteArr as above).
In the main class:
function xxxx.GetData(Dest:TByteArr): boolean; <== ????
....calculate length of data in bytes as Len....
SetLength(Dest, Len);
if not FRxBuf.Read(Dest) then exit;
....
In the buffer class I have a number of overloaded Read functions:
function Read(Dest: Pointer; Count: Cardinal): Cardinal; overload;
function Read(var Data: TByteArr): boolean; overload;
... and 5 more....
implemented as:
function TSSCommBuf.Read(var Data: TByteArr): boolean; // <== ???
begin
Result := Read(@Data, SizeOf(Data)) = SizeOf(Data);
end;
function TSSCommBuf.Read(Dest: Pointer; Count: Cardinal): Cardinal;
var
num: Cardinal;
Src: Pointer;
begin
num := FWriteIndex - FReadIndex; //Remaining data bytes in buffer
if num >= Count then
num := Count;
if num > 0 then
begin
Src := @FBuf[FReadIndex]; // FBuf is a TByteArr sized on demand
Move(Src^, Dest^, num);
FReadIndex := FReadIndex + num;
end;
Result := num;
end;
My question concerns the lines marked with <== ???
Do I use var in the declaration or not? As you can see the similar
functions are differently written now.
In Delphi I think that if an object or a dynamic array is passed as
argument it does not need the var declaration, but I am not sure.
I want to treat the array as a variable because it is the return
container for the data.
Bo Berglund
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