Alexander Klenin wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 20:46, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote:
On 19 Nov 2009, at 11:42, Alexander Klenin wrote
No, I asked for an example of code that would be negatively affected by
changing "var" to "out" in FillChar parameter.
I don't know by heart anymore, but as I mentioned the compiler crashed when
I tried that (or if you did that move, which has the same problem). There is
probably rtl or generated initialisation code that depends on the current
semantics of move/fillchar).
So, we are unable to fix FillChar because it would uncover bugs hiding
in the other places? ;-)
Why? the other places use fillchar in exactly they way it is supposed to
be used. Setting ref-counted types while bypassing the normal
ref-counted finalization. That isn't a bug.
fillchar wih var or out are 2 different functions, providing a different
functionality (even though they do overlap quite a bit)
Martin
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