Question

Is there a way that I can declare a variable with an absolute address that has some offset to the variable that it refers to. For instance, instead of:

function RefCount(const s: string): Integer;
begin
  Result := PInteger(Integer(s) - 8)^;
end;

is there some way that I can do:

function RefCount(const s: string): Integer;
var
  Count: PInteger absolute s {- 8 ?} ;
begin
  Result := Count^;
end;

(The example is to illustrate only, it is not necessarily useful..)

Answer 1

No, I don’t think there is an ‘extended syntax’ of the absolute keyword. The documentation is here, and, as far as I know, there are no undocumented features related to this keyword.