cpstrnew branch (was Re: [fpc-devel] Freepascal 2.4.0rc1 released)

[Martin Schreiber]

On Tuesday 10 November 2009 19:08:45 Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> Martin Schreiber schrieb:
> > On Tuesday 10 November 2009 18:33:54 Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> >>> Did you look into the code in cpstrnew branch? I did.
> >>
> >> And which changes are exactly the reason for your concerns?
> >
> > More checks
>
> Where? A pure unicodestring routine won't get additional checks.
>
> > and more complicated address calculation.
>
> Where? Adding 16 instead of 12 makes no difference.
>
> The "major" difference will be the initialization of the additional
> fields and the increased memory requirement of 4 bytes per string.
>
I try to prove the exciting statement. How can I build a startup compiler for 
the cpstrnew branch or how to compile the cpstrnew branch?

Martin