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The address operator @
returns the address of an identifier that is associated with an address (usually a variable or routine, but also a label).
Normally, the value @
returns is an untyped pointer
.
If you are handling pointers a lot, and want to mitigate issues with passing references of wrong type's target, you have use the directive {$typedaddress on}
.
Here some example to demonstrate, what produces with untyped pointers valid and functional code, but semantically outputs an erroneous result:
1program untypedAddressDemo(input, output, stderr);
2
3procedure incrementIntByRef(const ref: PByte);
4begin
5 inc(ref^);
6end;
7
8var
9 foo: integer;
10begin
11 foo := -1;
12 incrementIntByRef(@foo);
13 writeLn(foo);
14end.
It was intended, that 0
(zero) gets printed, but the program prints -256
instead.
With {$typedaddress on}
compilation fails with an incompatible type error.
You usually want the latter behavior (compile-time failure) instead of wasting time with hours of debugging.
other remarks
- In ASCII the character
@
(AT sign): has the value64
.
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