Am Mittwoch, den 26.09.2007, 11:34 +0200 schrieb Marco van de Voort: > > > > set up? > > > > > > Longstrings are not working correctly. You should use ansistrings or > > > shortstrings. > > > > Okay, good to know. Besides I'm using fpc 2.0.4, what is it that's not > > working? > > > > And back to the original question: how is the memory layout using > > AnsiString then? > > The field is a pointer to the ansistring. Which is basically a pchar with a > TAnsirec record on negative offset of the ptr value.
Thanks, that's what I assumed and could not proof. Is this the case for any occurences of AnsiString, the type name itself is a pointer behind the scenes or only in this special case of an array (would make less sense)? Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
