PXSC

[kjteng]

Extract from freePascal wiki: "...In PXSC, the loc function is the same as addr presented here....". Can someone tell me what is PXSC and how is it relates to freepascal?

[AlexTP]

What page of the wiki?

see info here:
http://www2.math.uni-wuppertal.de/wrswt/xsc/pxsc.html

[kjteng]

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Addr#:~:text=Addr%20is%20a%20compiler%20intrinsic,0).

P/S: ok. I found part of the answer: PXSC = PASCAL for Extended Scientific Computing but I am still interested to find more about it.

[AlexTP]

Added dummy page
https://wiki.freepascal.org/PXSC
and changed all Wiki mentions 'pxsc' to the wiki link.

[kjteng]

Thanks for your reply and information.
BTW, since you are updating the wiki page, can you look into the following statement (in the same wiki page) which I think may not be valid now:-

Also, in {$mode FPC} and {$mode objFPC} the @‑address operator has to be used to assign values to procedural values (unless {$modeSwitch classicalProcVars+} is set). In {$mode TP} and {$mode Delphi}, however, no operator at all may be used.

Based on my testing result, the mainly difference between addr and @ is: @(x) returns typed pointer when {$T} switch is on while addr(x) always return an untyped pointer.
Thank you.

[AlexTP]

Such wiki change must be made not by me.
sorry. i don't know if @ and addr() work the same or not.
need to check it...

[marcov]

Thanks for your reply and information.
BTW, since you are updating the wiki page, can you look into the following statement (in the same wiki page) which I think may not be valid now:-

Also, in {$mode FPC} and {$mode objFPC} the @‑address operator has to be used to assign values to procedural values (unless {$modeSwitch classicalProcVars+} is set). In {$mode TP} and {$mode Delphi}, however, no operator at all may be used.

Based on my testing result, the mainly difference between addr and @ is: @(x) returns typed pointer when {$T} switch is on while addr(x) always return an untyped pointer.
Thank you.

This is for procedure variables specifically. There @ can, in the case of methods, return two pointers.

[MarkMLl]

Extract from freePascal wiki: "...In PXSC, the loc function is the same as addr presented here....". Can someone tell me what is PXSC and how is it relates to freepascal?

What does the language reference manual have to say about it? You should not be relying on the wiki as a source of authoritative information.

https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html

MarkMLl

[kjteng]

What does the language reference manual have to say about it? You should not be relying on the wiki as a source of authoritative information.

https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html

MarkMLl

I am not relying the wiki. I just happened to landed on that wiki page via some weblinks. I think some of the info might be outdated and should be changed so that it wont misslead other reader. However I m not 100% sure. That's the reason why I requested the more experience expert here to have a look at that page.

[nanobit]

Based on my testing result, the mainly difference between addr and @ is: @(x) returns typed pointer when {$T} switch is on while addr(x) always return an untyped pointer.

Beware, {$T+} has also effects on pointermath (eg. on (@someDWord + 1)),
increases the increment from untyped to typed pointer.

[Kays]

[…] Can someone tell me what is PXSC and how is it relates to freepascal?

Occasionally there are statement regarding foreign Pascal dialects in order to ease transition to the FreePascal dialect.

[…] can you look into the following statement (in the same wiki page) which I think may not be valid now:-

Also, in {$mode FPC} and {$mode objFPC} the @‑address operator has to be used to assign values to procedural values (unless {$modeSwitch classicalProcVars+} is set). In {$mode TP} and {$mode Delphi}, however, no operator at all may be used.

Based on my testing result, the mainly difference between addr and @ is: @(x) returns typed pointer when {$T} switch is on while addr(x) always return an untyped pointer. […]

It’s this: Example program

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. program routinePointerTest(output);
2.         procedure foo;
3.                 begin
4.                         writeLn('Hello world!');
5.                 end;
6.         var
7.                 p: procedure;
8.         begin
9.                 p := foo; { or @foo }
10.                 p;
11.         end.

	foo	@foo
{$mode FPC}	↯	✔
{$mode objFPC}	↯	✔
{$mode TP}	✔	↯
{$mode Delphi}	✔	✔
{$mode macPas}	✔	↯

Added dummy page
https://wiki.freepascal.org/PXSC
and changed all Wiki mentions 'pxsc' to the wiki link.

Aaaand flagged as copyright infringement.