wrote:

>manually adjusting stack pointer and exception frame. I don't see how
>this could be achieved in plain Delphi.

that was my impression as well. even in modern delphi versions it is
still impossible to make some useful things I accustomed to use in cpp


though it really looks like it borrowed several useful concepts from
other languages in the past few years since bds2006 why it couldn't
bring the most useful techniques from cpp is behind my comprehension.
I mean automatic variables declared in place and evil macros i.e.
preprocessing stuff


anyway thanks for everyone explaining all those new delphi "tricks" I
didn't know before


-- 
Vladimir Ulchenko aka vavan