Hello,

is there a way not to get a "Variable xyz does not seem to be initialized" hint/warning for a fixed-size array?

program Project1;
uses Classes;
var
   Buffer: array[0..255] of Byte;
   FS: TFileStream;
begin
   // FillByte(Buffer, Length(Buffer), 0); // project1.lpr(9,18) Hint:
Variable "Buffer" does not seem to be initialized
   FS := TFileStream.Create('test.test', fmOpenRead);
   FS.Read(Buffer[0], Length(Buffer)); // << project1.lpr(11,11) Hint:
Variable "Buffer" does not seem to be initialized
end.

What is the correct code that doesn't emit any hint or warning?

Ondrej

Type
   TByteBuffer = array[0..255] of Byte;
Var
   Buffer : TByteBuffer;
begin
   Buffer:=Default(TByteBuffer);
end.

Michael.

That was easy. Thank you!

Ondrej

what about

     Buffer: array[0..255] of Byte = [0];

would that or something similar work? i do similar in several of my programs but i don't have any arrays in use in them...

eg:
   MyMeanMotnStr : string  = '';
   MyMeanMotion  : double  = 0.0;
   ModeDIAG      : boolean = False;
   obs_location  : vector  = (0,0,0,0);
   sstringlen    : longint = 0;

i know one solution has already been posted but thought of this one earlier when i first read your post... i just delayed in writing this until now :/

No, you would need to suppply the full amount of elements.

Michael.

my statement "or similar" should cover that but yeah, i did think about that aspect... it is a solution... just not a ""short hand" one ;)

Perhaps:

var
  Buffer: array[0..255] of Byte = Default;

could be supported as shortcut for:

type
   TByteBuffer = array[0..255] of Byte;
var
   Buffer : TByteBuffer;
begin
   Buffer := Default(TByteBuffer);