On 2023-06-30 11:11, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Jun 30, 2023, at 9:03 AM, Hairy Pixels
wrote:
That's why that worked. Hmm with short strings the null terminator
could be truncated when copying right? Something to l
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Jun 30, 2023, at 9:03 AM, Hairy Pixels wrote:
That's why that worked. Hmm with short strings the null terminator could
be truncated when copying right? Something
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Jun 30, 2023, at 9:03 AM, Hairy Pixels wrote:
That's why that worked. Hmm with short strings the null terminator could be
truncated when copying right? Something to look out for.
this is what I meant about truncation. S is no
> On Jun 30, 2023, at 9:03 AM, Hairy Pixels wrote:
>
> That's why that worked. Hmm with short strings the null terminator could be
> truncated when copying right? Something to look out for.
this is what I meant about truncation. S is no longer null terminated and now
the pchar will fail whe
> On Jun 29, 2023, at 9:31 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
> wrote:
>
> Yes, it is:
>
> ---
> _$PROGRAM$_Ld1:
> # [4] p := '123';
>.ascii "123\000"
> .Le11:
> ---
>
> Just as it is for a shortstring and ansistring:
> ---
> # [6] s:='456';
>.ascii "\003456\000"
> .Le
On 2023-06-29 16:22, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:18:44 +0700
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
What is really happening in this snippet? I think it must be
implicitly taking the address of the constant string but is it also
adding the null terminator automati
On Thu, 29 Jun 2023, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:18:44 +0700
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
What is really happening in this snippet? I think it must be
implicitly taking the address of the constant string but is it also
adding the null terminator auto
On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:18:44 +0700
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
> What is really happening in this snippet? I think it must be
> implicitly taking the address of the constant string but is it also
> adding the null terminator automatically? The string prints with
> writeln so it must be nul
What is really happening in this snippet? I think it must be implicitly taking
the address of the constant string but is it also adding the null terminator
automatically? The string prints with writeln so it must be null terminated
right?
var
p: Pchar;
begin
p := '123';
writeln(p);
Rega
