[Lazarus] PDF generator, try 2

[Martok]

>> You will get the hint here then, no  ?
>
> No.  Seems the compiler is more lenient with pointer types.
That's a bug then, isn't it? After all, it's about the var parameter, not what
is passed into it... The variable that is passed into FillChar is not yet
initialized, but it could be read inside FillChar, which is why the compiler nags.

If Move+FillChar would use out instead of var (as they should - they don't read
the dest value, that's the whole point), that would be fixed once and for all.
But I remember having this discussion before and apparently it was like this for
some compatibility reason...

There are a few places in API imports as well where a "_Out_ FOO * pBar" was
imported as "var bar: FOO" but it is actually only used for output, with the
same technically useless hints. But that's getting off-topic, sorry.


Regards,
Martok