On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Jonas Maebe wrote: > >> >> On 03 Dec 2012, at 11:52, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Jonas Maebe wrote: >>> >>>> On 03 Dec 2012, at 11:13, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >>>> >>>>> You are overwriting the pointer. S is (behind the scenes) a pointer to >>>>> a memory area. You should do FillChar(s[1], 1024, '*'); >>>> >>>> >>>> Or use http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/stringofchar.html >>> >>> >>> I was considering answering with that too, but I didn't feel like >>> checking how it is implemented, to judge the speed penalty :) >> >> >> It definitely doesn't have the "ask the mailing list because I made a >> mistake"-penalty :) > > > Checked anyway now. Stringofchar uses fillchar internally, so it's better to > use that.
I completely forgot about it, if I would remember it, I would have used it in the first place > > Michael. > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
