From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 11/12/2025 5:21 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > On 11/12/2025 5:14 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >> I do not see a problem with the pointer type casts. If   
   >> normal code is safe, then I think it is OK to have ways   
   >> to workaround the safeness. Sometimes it is desirable   
   >> and it is hopefully easy to identify usage of such   
   >> constructs and require extra code review of such code.   
   >   
   > Illustration:   
      
   So VMS Pascal is not so bad.   
      
   Delphi is pretty bad.   
      
   It seems like Delphi had as a design goal that anything   
   possible in C should be possible in Delphi.   
      
   So it add a lot of questionable features.   
      
   Making it possible to code C in Pascal.   
      
   Example:   
      
   program cinp;   
      
   var   
      p, p2 : pchar;   
      i : integer;   
      
   begin   
      GetMem(p, 4); // p = malloc(4)   
      GetMem(p2, 3); // p2 = malloc(3)   
      for i := 0 to 4 do p[i] := chr(i); // initialize elements 0..4   
      Move(p, p2, 5); // memcpy(p2, p, 5)   
      for i := 0 to 4 do writeln(ord(p2[i])); // print elements 0..4   
      FreeMem(p2); // free(p2)   
      FreeMem(p); // free(p)   
   end.   
      
   Arne   
      
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