Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am Mo., 16. März 2020, 07:33:
> Ok, that makes sense now. Dynamic arrays can't be passed to static arrays. > I > remember when I tried to make aligned dynamic arrays I got to look around > in > the code and it seems plausible you could just make a memcpy call in the > RTL > for dynamic arrays being passed to static arrays. Seems deceptively easy. > :) > You forget managed types. You can't do a simple Move for them. > Shouldn't it be a constant array though? I'm not sure how the compiler > works > but from the programers perspective I thought I was getting something > without runtime allocation because the array contained only constant > values. > It's only a constant array if it's declared in the const section. Inside normal code it can also contain variables, function calls, just any expression really. Though it would be a potential optimization if all entries are constant to treat it as a constant array. Again that is something that *could* be done, but is not right now. Regards, Sven >
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