Why do I get a General Protection Fault after redeclaring a
variable as follows.

Original declaration:
Type
  TConf = Record
            A : Integer ;
            B : string ;
          End ;
Var
  Conf : TConf ;

Using the above works perfectly.

But after changing to:
Type
  TConf = Record
            A : Integer ;
            B : string ;
          End ;
  PConf = ^TConf ;
Var
  Conf : PConf ;

I keep getting a GPF as soon as I try to use the variables.

I have done the same thing(???) in another program which works fine.

Can anyone figure what I am doing wrong.

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Sure... you changed the declaration so that "Conf" is no longer an instance of
the record, but an instance of a pointer to the record.  A pointer initially
contains an unpredictable value, and you must use "New()" and "Dispose()" (or
an equivalent procedure) to allocate the actual storage block at runtime.