Ofs

Return offset of a variable.

Declaration

Source position: system.fpd line 57

  function Ofs(var X) : LongInt;

Description

Ofs returns the offset of the address of a variable. This function is only supported for compatibility. In Free Pascal, it returns always the complete address of the variable, since Free Pascal is a 32/64 bit compiler.

Errors

None.

See also

Name Description
CSeg Return code segment
DSeg Return data segment
Ptr Combine segment and offset to pointer
Seg Return segment

Example

Program Example44;
{ Program to demonstrate the Ofs function. }
Var W : Pointer;
begin
  W:=Pointer(Ofs(W)); { W contains its own offset. }
end.