How to pass an unknown record to a function as argument

[Rudy Velthuis 91]

On 2/11/2019 at 8:18 PM, Attila Kovacs said:

Like me. It's "created" once at startup to generate the rtti cache and stored in a global variable and never "created" again or "free"'d. Single threaded app.

 

TRTTIContext doesn't have to be freed. To quote the help:

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Note: A call to Free is not necessary because the instance is released when the TRttiContext gets out of scope.

[David Heffernan 2345]

1 hour ago, Rudy Velthuis said:

Not much, as this is only one function. And it is more elegant than passing a pointer and type info.

 

I would then make this function call a private function with the pointer obtained from the parameter and the typeinfo obtained from T.

 

That way, there will hardly be any bloat. And if this function is not critical, you will never notice a difference.

That's exactly what I suggested if you read on to the second paragraph. 

[Attila Kovacs 629]

@Rudy Velthuis Yup.

[Rudy Velthuis 91]

4 hours ago, David Heffernan said:

That's exactly what I suggested if you read on to the second paragraph. 

Yes, indeed you did. I must have missed that, sorry.

[John Kouraklis 94]

@Clément Thanks a lot for this👌