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deprecate unsafeAddr; extend addr
addr is now available for all addressable locations, unsafeAddr is deprecated and become an alias for addr
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@@ -3502,8 +3502,9 @@ location is `T`, the `addr` operator result is of the type `ptr T`. An
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address is always an untraced reference. Taking the address of an object that
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resides on the stack is **unsafe**, as the pointer may live longer than the
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object on the stack and can thus reference a non-existing object. One can get
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the address of variables, but one can't use it on variables declared through
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`let` statements:
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the address of variables. For easier interoperability with other compiled languages
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such as C, retrieving the address of a `let` variable, a parameter,
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or a `for` loop variable can be accomplished too:
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.. code-block:: nim
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@@ -3515,24 +3516,18 @@ the address of variables, but one can't use it on variables declared through
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# --> ref 0x7fff6b71b670 --> 0x10bb81050"Hello"
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echo cast[ptr string](t3)[]
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# --> Hello
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# The following line doesn't compile:
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# The following line also works
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echo repr(addr(t1))
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# Error: expression has no address
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The unsafeAddr operator
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-----------------------
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For easier interoperability with other compiled languages such as C, retrieving
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the address of a `let` variable, a parameter, or a `for` loop variable can
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be accomplished by using the `unsafeAddr` operation:
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The unsafeAddr operator is an alias for the addr operator and is deprecated:
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.. code-block:: nim
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let myArray = [1, 2, 3]
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foreignProcThatTakesAnAddr(unsafeAddr myArray)
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Procedures
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==========
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@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ has `source` as the owner. A path expression `e` is defined recursively:
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- Object field access `e.field` is a path expression.
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- `system.toOpenArray(e, ...)` is a path expression.
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- Pointer dereference `e[]` is a path expression.
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- An address `addr e`, `unsafeAddr e` is a path expression.
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- An address `addr e` is a path expression.
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- A type conversion `T(e)` is a path expression.
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- A cast expression `cast[T](e)` is a path expression.
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- `f(e, ...)` is a path expression if `f`'s return type is a view type.
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