> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco van de Voort) wrote: > > A cast is really a cast. IOW the cast pchar(ansistring) is mostly a > > no-op. Traditional C code then usually treats the #0 as end of > > string. > > PChar(AnsiString) was a no-op typecast in the past and is nowadays a > function. It checks whether the AnsiString is nil and if yes returns a > pointer to a string containing one character: #0. > > That means: > Pointer(AnsiString) <> Pointer(PChar(AnsiString)) > > To get a no-op typecase you can use: > MyPChar:=PChar(Pointer(AnsiString));
Is this delphi compat, and if yes, what is this exactly for? _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
