On 1 Feb 2005 at 19:59, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
...I can't really imagine they added things such as unchecked type-casts...
Yes. See "Unchecked Type Conversions":
http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm/html/RM-13-9.html
..."absolute" variables...
Yes. See "Operational and Representation Attributes" (specifically, the "Address" attribute in paragraph 11):
http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm/html/RM-13-3.html
...assembler statements and machine code inlines...
Yes. See "Machine Code Insertions":
http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm/html/RM-13-8.html
...low-level memory access (FillChar, Move)...
No, although one could write such a procedure with the above.
...misusing constants as variables...
No.
...confusion between pointers and arrays and sometimes single elements and arrays...
No.
-- Dave