[fpc-devel] Re: WinCE port patches

[Yury Sidorov]

From: "Florian Klaempfl" <F.Klaempfl at gmx.de>

>>>> 2. Define new types PSysChar/SysString to correspond either 
>>>> PChar/AnsiString
>>>> or PWideChar/WideString depending from OS type.
>>>
>>>
>>> It's not a good idea to have String as WideString *without* reference
>>> counting on WinCE, and Wide or Ansi strings *with* reference counting in
>>> other cases.
>>
>>
>> I did not say anything about ref-counting in strings. WideStrings are 
>> refcounted as well as AnsiStrings.
>>
>> I meant the following:
>>
>> In WinCE system unit define:
>>
>> type
>>  PSysChar = PWideChar;
>>  SysString = WideString;
>>
>> Then modify some OS related RTL variables/functions to use theese 
>> PSysChar/SysString types.
>> For example:
>>
>> var
>>  cmdline: PSysChar;
>> ...
>> function paramstr(l : longint) : SysString;
>
> I would leave it an ansistring. Experience showed that people expect that 
> functions behave on all OSes the same way. Add an additional paramstrw.

Ok. All unicode strings will be converted to ansistrings in WinCE RTL.

Yury Sidorov.