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

[ik]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
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> On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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>> On 03 Dec 2012, at 11:52, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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>>>> 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 :)
>>
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>> It definitely doesn't have the "ask the mailing list because I made a
>> mistake"-penalty :)
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> Checked anyway now. Stringofchar uses fillchar internally, so it's better to
> use that.

I completely forgot about it, if I would remember it, I would have
used it in the first place

>
> Michael.
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