[fpc-pascal] pchar with more than 255 characters

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Wed Nov 16 17:25:57 CET 2011


On 16 Nov 2011, at 17:15, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be 
> > wrote:
>> length(pchar) is translated into strlen(pchar) (just like in Delphi).
>
> But why is it limited to 255 chars in {$H-} ?

It is not.

> (I understood that it is
> limited like this from the original poster)

The original poster said that he could not use string constants longer  
than 255 characters in his code in {$h-} mode.


Jonas



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