On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, David Emerson wrote:
using a simple record, e.g.
some_record_type = record
a, b : longint;
end;
If I declare a record helper, does this change the record in any way? i.e.
does the record take any more space when passed as a function parameter? Does
it become somehow like an object, and need to be allocated?
No. It remains a record.
Or is the helper
more like a language shortcut/convenience, where the compiler still treats
the record the same way, and declaring and using the helper is equivalent to
declaring and using a function that takes the record as a parameter?
Yes, this is correct. It's syntactical sugar. The basic layout of a record is
not changed.
Michael.
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