On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: >> If I remember well, PChar and even String is different between these >> modes, right? The compiler will convert strings between them or this >> is not a problem? Even using LCL? > > The default string type depends on two different things, namely the mode and > the H switch which is by default only set in the Delphi modes. H- means that > "String" is "ShortString". H+ means that "String" is "AnsiString" as long as > modeswitch UnicodeString is not set (which is for example the case if the > mode is DelphiUnicode). However since the latter isn't really recommended > yet anyway (since the RTL and especially its classes would still mainly use > String=AnsiString) you shouldn't really run into problems there. > The same is true for (P)Char: only if modeswitch UnicodeString is set, then > it's an alias for (P)WideChar, otherwise it's an alias for (P)AnsiChar. > At least the conversions between the string types are handled by the > compiler, only PAnsiChar <=> PWideChar conversions you'd need to do > yourself, but the compiler would complain there anyway.
Sven, thank you for this explanation. Well, I will try. About generics, I'm not using them (yet) so, I won't have problems. Regards, Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
