[fpc-pascal]Incorrect RT 216 error?

[Ingmar Tulva]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Jonas Maebe wrote:

}> As I recall, ansistrings start with index 0, not 1 (like shortstrings
}> do). Then this is to be corrected, too. Not sure, though, I always start
}
}That not correct, they do start at index 1. Only pchar's start at index 0.

Wow, that's surprise. It means, when one does:

  VAR s:Ansistring;

  s[2]:=someting;

the compiler actually produces code which puts 'something' at address
[s+1]? E.g.

mov EDI,[s]
mov AL,[something]
mov [EDI+1],AL

or similar? Otherwise typecast to PChar wouldn't work.

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Ingmar