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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/system.nim | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/system.nim b/lib/system.nim index 8cae7c5db..78769208c 100644 --- a/lib/system.nim +++ b/lib/system.nim @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ proc new*(T: typedesc): auto = ## reference to it as result value. ## ## When ``T`` is a ref type then the resulting type will be ``T``, - ## otherwise it will be ``ref T``. + ## otherwise it will be ``ref T``. when (T is ref): var r: T else: @@ -572,6 +572,7 @@ proc unsafeNew*[T](a: var ref T, size: Natural) {.magic: "New", noSideEffect.} ## purposes when you know what you're doing! proc sizeof*[T](x: T): int {.magic: "SizeOf", noSideEffect.} +proc sizeof*(x: typedesc): int {.magic: "SizeOf", noSideEffect.} ## returns the size of ``x`` in bytes. Since this is a low-level proc, ## its usage is discouraged - using ``new`` for the most cases suffices ## that one never needs to know ``x``'s size. As a special semantic rule, |