[fpc-pascal] Ansistrings exported in DLL's - mystery

[L505]

> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, L505 wrote:
>
> > Trustmaster from PSP project tells me he's been using Ansistrings in DLL without
> > problems. The entire psp.furtopia.org website is running a DLL with ansistrings
in
> > it, he says.
> >
> > He says he compiled it with FPC 1.0 a long time ago..
> >
> > So the psp.furtopia website has been using ansistrings in DLL for ages now.
> >
> > How can this be? How is it possible a website can run without any problems, using
> > ansistrings?
> >
> > i.e. exporting functions like this:
> >
> > function something(param: ansistring): ansistring;
> >
> >
> > Can it be pure luck that a website is running this long with ansistrings?
>
> It all depends on how the DLL is used.
> It's impossible to say something definite without this information.
>
> If it's used by a C program such as Apache or so, then it should not
> present a problem at all.
>
> Michael.

Its just a dll/so that a CGI is calling on - it's not an apache module or anything.

i.e. place a dll in a directory, and have a CGI program call on it..

I got a copy of the psp 1.0 sources and what he is doing is calling the functions
from an SO/DLL from a cgi executable.. There are tons of functions like this that
another fpc program is calling from the SO/DLL:

function something(param: ansistring): ansistring;

It's just funny, because a website is the thing you'd think would be the first thing
to crash down: a website is accessed by several people at different times in the day,
whereas a desktop is not. I visit his forum every day and have never once had a
crash!

I can post the psp 1.0 sources online if anyone is interested, but probably it is
only me who is so curious ;-)