[fpc-pascal] FPC vs Delphi's unicode string support questions

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2012-08-18 22:33, schrieb Sven Barth:
 > The RTL mostly uses PChar to not be restricted to 255 characters (exceptions are ancient compatibility units like DOS, Objects, etc.).
 > There are often overloads for ShortString and AnsiString though.

AFAIK all file handling routines use the file record definitons from \lazarus\fpc\source\rtl\inc\filerec.inc with the following definitions:

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const
   filerecnamelength = 255;
type
   FileRec = Packed Record
     Handle    : THandle;
     Mode      : longint;
     RecSize   : SizeInt;
     _private  : array[1..3 * SizeOf(SizeInt) + 5 * SizeOf (pointer)] of byte;
     UserData  : array[1..32] of byte;
     name      : array[0..filerecnamelength] of char;
   End;
------------------------------------------

So whenever you want to open a file the "name" can be no longer than 255 characters.