[fpc-devel] dominant short strings in compiler source

[Florian Klaempfl]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 
> On 17 mei 2006, at 19:59, L505 wrote:
> 
>> What do you guys thing about the idea to implement what DEC Pascal and
>> Extended Pascal
>> have - a 2 byte length ShortString (MediumString?), uprdade *some* of
>> the path related
>> ShortStrings to be MediumString[1000] instead of ShortString[255]. For
>> some situations
>> it would probably fix some problems immediately just by upgrading to
>> string[1000] or
>> even string[500].
> 
> There is the basis of a "longstring" type in the compiler which does
> that more or less, but it was never fully implemented, because nobody
> cares/cared about it. And you'd still have to convert these longstrings
> to ansistrings and back every time you interface with sysutils, which
> would introduce extra overhead.

That's stupid. Better use ansistrings then.