[fpc-pascal] String and dynamic array initialisation

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 10 Feb 2011, at 16:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 
>> Are there any cases where a string variable will be allocated with 
>> anything other than zero length,
> 
> In case it's a shortstring, the initial data could be anything.
> 
>> or a dynamic array will be allocated with anything other than zero 
>> elements?
> 
> No.

Thanks Jonas, it was mainly the dynamic array case that I was interested 
in. Presumably a string defined without an explicit length is a 
longstring and starts empty.

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