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Topic: Why does the TypeInfo intrinsic return a typeless pointer instead of PTypeInfo? (Read 2652 times)
SlightlyOutOfPhase
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Why does the TypeInfo intrinsic return a typeless pointer instead of PTypeInfo?
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howardpc
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Re: Why does the TypeInfo intrinsic return a typeless pointer instead of PTypeInfo?
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The "reasoning" may simply be for Delphi compatibility.
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taazz
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Re: Why does the TypeInfo intrinsic return a typeless pointer instead of PTypeInfo?
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June 15, 2018, 10:36:10 pm »
because ptypeinfo is declared in the typinfo unit which is compiler specific and for that reason can not be allowed to polute the system unit which should be as agnostic as possible.
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Re: Why does the TypeInfo intrinsic return a typeless pointer instead of PTypeInfo?
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why should it make sense? let it be and go ahead
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