Am Montag, den 03.09.2007, 09:31 +0200 schrieb Marco van de Voort: > > has anyone managed to build in a pascal program what in C is a > > > > char *strings[] > > > > and use it from C? > > Same as char**strings so ppchar.
The missing link. :) > > In pascal terms this is a single dimensional array aka vector of PChar. > > > > Do I have to make copies of any string or is it sufficient to fill up an > > array with PChar? > > That depends on what you do with it, like under C, where you can also let it > point to e.g. constants using & > > > My attemtps all failed up to know ... > > Have a look at the unixutil unit (most notably stringtoppchar) and the unix > unit > implementation (exec procedures that use environment mostly) > > Note that the unixutil unit was meant only as a temporary helper for unix, > and not really meant to be used by endusers. The "leftovers" of the > linux->unix unit transform are stored there. But at least it is a nice source of information for learning how to handle some cases. Thanks, Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
