19 Mar
2001
19 Mar
'01
11:39 p.m.
On 19 Mar 01, at 19:36, Markus Gerwinski wrote:
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In Delphi, from what the help file says, the program should not compile if the typecasting is wrong. GPC could do the same.
??? How should the compiler know? I mean, the object type of a pointer at runtime is a matter of runtime.
The compiler should know what an object type is and whether an object that purports to point to it is a pointer to the right type.
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