[fpc-devel] dominant short strings in compiler source

[Jonas Maebe]

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.


Jonas