[fpc-pascal] Unicodestrings and Assign(File)

[Sven Barth]

Am 21.05.2012 07:17 schrieb "Jürgen Hestermann" <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de>:
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> Tomas Hajny schrieb:
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>> On Sun, May 20, 2012 14:40, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
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>>>
>>> Move(s[1],TextRec(t).Name,Length(s));
>>> That would be a bug IMO when S is longer than 255 characters.
>>> "Move" does no range check.
>>>
>>
>> No, unit System (which uses these include files) is never compiled with
$H+.
>
> Ok. If that can be guaranteed.
> But I am always wondering why in such situations the type is not set to
ShortString.
> Why use generic String type if all code relies on the fact that it may
never change
> from ShortString to some other string type? It's just asking for trouble
and also
> makes the code less clear.

Estimated guess: the code is from a time where "String = AnsiString" wasn't
possible.

Regards,
Sven
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