Helper for TArray

[Thaddy]

Delphi does support implicit specializations, that's one of the reasons why we added it. What Delphi does not support is global generic functions, only generic methods.

Thank you for the correction.
It is your fault. 
Thanks to you and the likes of Ryan I only use Delphi for testing.
 

Anyway, my answer is a good solution to the original problem.
I never figured it was THAT easy.

[Ryan J]

Unfortunately Free Pascal does not support generic helpers (yet)

I spent hours developing this feature but I got no response on my patch. I probably did a number of things wrong but we didn't even make it that far. I assume they won't care about it until Delphi implements this feature.

[Thaddy]

Well at least thanks to your previous work I could implement my last examples.

[TRon]

I spent hours developing this feature but I got no response on my patch. I probably did a number of things wrong but we didn't even make it that far. I assume they won't care about it until Delphi implements this feature.

Thank you for mentioning RJ. It is very unfortunate that your MR for generic helpers is around for over a year now...

[Molochnik]

Thaddy
Than you very much! Your snippet allowed me to advance in moving the large project to Lazarus. It went almost smoothly right up until I encountered the error:

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1. TdsCryptoAPIStorageUni.pas(188,57) Error: Internal error 200307043

Then I stopped (it was the trunk version).

[Thaddy]

In the file TdsCryptoAPIStorageUni.pas Mask out floating point exceptions with SetExceptionMask.
Although the compiler should not throw an internal error, this is likely the cause.

[Molochnik]

Thaddy yes, thanks! The job continues.
Another small issue, SetLastWriteTime and some others next to it from IOUtils are commented. I can write them myself in Win and Linux (its not that difficult) but interesting why is that.

[Thaddy]

Looks like those are not fully implemented for cross platform use.
Some of those are implemented for Unix, though.