[fpc-pascal] const pchar parameters?

[Jonas Maebe]

On 31 Dec 2005, at 19:09, L505 wrote:

> When using pchars, what happens when one does this:
>
> function test(const input: pchar): integer;
>
> Is this a pointer to a pchar? Or is it just a pchar?

It can be either of those. The compiler is free to choose what it  
does. All you know for sure is that when you try to assign something  
to "input", the compiler will throw an error.

x
Jonas