[fpc-pascal] length for long ansistring = segment fault

[Jonas Maebe]

On 03 Dec 2012, at 11:52, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
>> On 03 Dec 2012, at 11:13, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>>> You are overwriting the pointer. S is (behind the scenes) a  
>>> pointer to a memory area. You should do FillChar(s[1], 1024, '*');
>>
>> Or use http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/stringofchar.html
>
> I was considering answering with that too, but I didn't feel like  
> checking how it is implemented, to judge the speed penalty :)

It definitely doesn't have the "ask the mailing list because I made a  
mistake"-penalty :)


Jonas