> On Aug 9, 2023, at 4:37 PM, Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> No, the offset is not a memory address but just a number of bytes (which is
> also the reason why you cannot add the pointers together, but you can add a
> number to a pointer. As an example, you could use this operation to find out
> the exact alignment of fields within a record (to check whether there's some
> padding inserted between them) - e.g. if you aren't sure what alignment
> directive was used for compiling a unit declaring the structure, or to
> understand the compiler behaviour for a particuler alignment directive..
OK I understand now. It's basically an implicit cast to integer. There may have
been historical reasons for this but I don't understand why you wouldn't just
cast explicitly. Same goes for companions operators I think. I'd say it's one
of the more confusion parts of the syntax actually.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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