[Oberon] FPGA - Pointers to [named] records only

Andreas Pirklbauer andreas_pirklbauer at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 2 08:38:49 CEST 2018


   >  `ORP' is now less forgiving, as I needed to change the above to
   >
   >  TYPE
   >    (* Depth=1 only *)
   >    ColorTable = POINTER TO ColorTableDesc;
   >    ColorTableDesc = RECORD
   >      i: ARRAY 2 OF RECORD red, green, blue: BYTE END
   >  END; 


This change to the official compiler was made on 26.9.2017.

It became necessary because no type descriptors are created
in Oberon for *anonymous* records, so when the programmer
calls NEW in such cases, the garbage collector would break.

One could have decided to *also* create type descriptors for
anonymous records (I have done that in a test implementation),
but requiring pointers to always point to *named* records was
deemed quite acceptable. And also improves readability a little.

-ap





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