Difference between revisions of "Pointer"

Revision as of 17:17, 9 April 2014

A pointer is a data type wich contains a reference/pointer to the memory address of the variable it points to.

Pointers can be declared in several ways:

p: Pointer;  // direct use of pointer-type
pL: ^Longint; // usage of pointer-to-type notation.

See also:

navigation bar: data types
simple data types	`boolean` `byte` `cardinal` `char` `currency` `double` `dword` `extended` `int8` `int16` `int32` `int64` `integer` `longint` `real` `shortint` `single` `smallint` `pointer` `qword` `word`
complex data types	`array` `class` `object` `record` `set` `string` `shortstring`

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 See also:
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 * http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse15.html
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