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Preface
Chapter 1. Delphi Pascal
Units
Programs
Libraries
Packages
Data Types
Variables and Constants
Exception Handling
File I/O
Functions and Procedures
Chapter 2. The Delphi Object Model
Classes and Objects
Interfaces
Reference Counting
Messages
Memory Management
Old-Style Object Types
Chapter 3. Runtime Type Information
Virtual Method Table
Published Declarations
The TypInfo Unit
Virtual and Dynamic Methods
Initialization and Finalization
Automated Methods
Interfaces
Exploring RTTI
Chapter 4. Concurrent Programming
Threads and Processes
The TThread Class
The BeginThread and EndThread Functions
Thread Local Storage
Processes
Futures
Chapter 5. Language Reference
Chapter 6. System Constants
Variant Type Codes
Open Array Types
Virtual Method Table Offsets
Runtime Error Codes
Chapter 7. Operators
Unary Operators
Multiplicative Operators
Additive Operators
Comparison Operators
Chapter 8. Compiler Directives
Appendix A. Command-Line Tools
Appendix B. The SysUtils Unit
Index