INC and DEC statements
INC x is the same as the statement x:=x+1.
However, because it doesn't do an addition it's a bit more efficient.
Similarly, DEC x is the same as x:=x-1.
The observant reader may think that INC and DEC are the same as ++ and -.
But there's one important difference: INC x always increases x by one, whereas x++ may increase x by more than one depending on the type to which x points.
For example, if x were a pointer to INT then x++ would increase x by two (INT is 16-bit, which is two bytes).
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