Inline (keyword)

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The inline keyword is used in unsafe code blocks for the declaration of fixed-size structures containing embedded arrays.

The arrays are placed inline and they can only be defined inside a class or record as a field:

type
  myrec = record
    chars: inline array[0..255] of char;
    ints: inline array[1..5,1..9] of integer;
  end;

Note: if the code above does not compile ('Unsafe code not allowed'), you will need to adjust the project option allowing unsafe code.

Rules

The following rules apply to inline arrays:

• they cannot be used as regular types
• they must be declared within an unsafe method
• they can have multiple dimensions but the dimensions all have to be defined (unlike regular arrays)
• the subtype must be one of : smallint, shortint, integer(longint), int64, byte, word, cardinal(longword), uint64, double, single, boolean, char.

See Also

• Inline Property Accessors
• Unsafe Code
• Array Types

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