1. Chapter 1 Delphi Pascal

   1. Units

   2. Programs

   3. Libraries

   4. Packages

   5. Data Types

   6. Variables and Constants

   7. Exception Handling

   8. File I/O

   9. Functions and Procedures

2. Chapter 2 The Delphi Object Model

   1. Classes and Objects

   2. Interfaces

   3. Reference Counting

   4. Messages

   5. Memory Management

   6. Old-Style Object Types

3. Chapter 3 Runtime Type Information

   1. Virtual Method Table

   2. Published Declarations

   3. The TypInfo Unit

   4. Virtual and Dynamic Methods

   5. Initialization and Finalization

   6. Automated Methods

   7. Interfaces

   8. Exploring RTTI

4. Chapter 4 Concurrent Programming

   1. Threads and Processes

   2. The TThread Class

   3. The BeginThread and EndThread Functions

   4. Thread Local Storage

   5. Processes

   6. Futures

5. Chapter 5 Language Reference

6. Chapter 6 System Constants

   1. Variant Type Codes

   2. Open Array Types

   3. Virtual Method Table Offsets

   4. Runtime Error Codes

7. Chapter 7 Operators

   1. Unary Operators

   2. Multiplicative Operators

   3. Additive Operators

   4. Comparison Operators

8. Chapter 8 Compiler Directives

1. Appendix A Command-Line Tools

2. Appendix B The SysUtils Unit

   1. Errors and Exceptions

   2. File Management

   3. String Management

   4. Numeric Conversion

   5. Dates and Times

   6. Localization

   7. Modules

   8. Windows

   9. Miscellaneous

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