[fpc-devel] TTypeKind, strings and chars

waldo kitty wkitty42 at windstream.net
Sun Jun 2 03:44:13 CEST 2013


On 6/1/2013 18:44, Maciej Izak wrote:
> Thanks for response.
>
>     Compiler uses internally some LongStrings which is not possible to use for
>     variable declarations. I don't know whether this type is needed in RTTI. And
>     yes, Delphi uses tkLString instead of tkAString for ansistrings.
>
> Clear.
>
>     I also don't know why we have it. Compiler does not use it.
>
> So no one really knows, why have we tkUChar?

so maybe svn "blame" will tell when it was put in and by whom?

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