Tony Whyman wrote:
While the online documentation says a lot about tyepcasting PChars to
AnsiStrings, there seems to be nothing on the reverse.
You obviously meant the opposite. In any case, ansistring(pchar) results
in the same code as ansistring:=pchar, and results in a type conversion
tha
On 18/05/16 14:27, Jonas Maebe wrote:
s := string(Buf); {seems to work - but should it?}
end;
Why shouldn't it?
Because I couldn't find any documentation saying this should work and I
wasn't sure if this worked by luck or design.
To repeat what I said in about every message in the prev
Tony Whyman wrote on Wed, 18 May 2016:
I've been looking at some old code which still seems to work in fpc
3.0.0 - but is it safe? The code looks like:
{$mode delphi}
var Buf: PChar;
s: string;
begin
Buf := LoadString; {returns a pointer to an arbitrarily long null
terminated stri
