[fpc-devel] new string - question on usage

[Jonas Maebe]

On 12 Oct 2011, at 10:13, Jonas Maebe wrote:

> That would indeed require some ifdefs to keep the code compilable  
> also by Delphi. No solution will be completely free.

Well, an alternative could be to add a global directive such as

{$modeswitch duplicate_all_string_based_code}

whereby anything in that unit is first parsed as if the "string" types  
were a generic type parameter, and the then compiler automatically  
generates specializations for unicodestring and ansistring variants  
for all declarations/implementations involving at least one string- 
type entity.


Jonas