On Thu, 22 Jun 2023, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Jun 22, 2023, at 8:41 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
It's for easier pointer math, a construct which has been used in FPC since day
1 (AFAIK).
Use with care, since no boundary checks are done.
You mean instead of doing p + 1 or you can do p[1]?
Yes.
It may have been used for C compatibility too since an array in C is just a
pointer.
Yes, the concepts are similar.
Michael.
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