The bitwise operators shl, shr, and, or, xor and not work in GNU Pascal like in Borland Pascal. As an extension, you can use them as procedures, for example
program AndProcedureDemo; var x: Integer; begin and (x, $0000ffff); end.
as an alternative to
program AndOperatorDemo; var x: Integer; begin x := x and $0000ffff; end.
GPC accepts the BP style notation $abcd for hexadecimal numbers, but you also can use Extended Pascal notation:
program EPBaseDemo; const Binary = 2#11111111; Octal = 8#177; Hex = 16#ff; begin end.
and so on up to a basis of 36. Of course, you can mix the notations as you like, e.g.:
program BPEPBaseDemo; begin WriteLn ($cafe = 2#1100101011111110) end.
Inc and Dec are implemented like in Borland Pascal. Pred and Succ are generalized according to Extended Pascal and can have a second (optional) parameter:
procedure SuccDemo; var a: Integer = 42; begin a := Succ (a, 5); WriteLn (a) { 47 } end.
BP style absolute variables work in the context of overloading other variables as well as in the context of specifying an absolute address, but the latter is highly unportable and not very useful even in Dos protected mode.
program BPAbsoluteDemo; type TString = String (80); TTypeChoice = (t_Integer, t_Char, t_String); { @@ WARNING: BAD STYLE! } procedure ReadVar (var x: Void; TypeChoice: TTypeChoice); var xInt: Integer absolute x; xChar: Char absolute x; xStr: TString absolute x; begin case TypeChoice of t_Integer: ReadLn (xInt); t_Char : ReadLn (xChar); t_String : ReadLn (xStr); end end; var i: Integer; c: Char; s: TString; begin ReadVar (i, t_Integer); ReadVar (c, t_Char); ReadVar (s, t_String); WriteLn (i, ' ', c, ' ', s) end.
GNU Pascal knows Borland Pascal's procedures FillChar
and
Move
. However, their use can be dangerous because it often
makes implicit unportable assumptions about type sizes, endianness,
internal structures or similar things. Therefore, avoid them
whenever possible. E.g., if you want to clear an array of strings,
don't FillChar the whole array with zeros (this would
overwrite the Schema discriminants, see Strings), but rather
use a for loop to assign the empty string to each string. In
fact, this is also more efficient than FillChar, since it
only has to set the length field of each string to zero.