[fpc-pascal] ExpandFileName failure on long filenames on Linux

Bart bartjunk64 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 1 16:34:21 CEST 2013


On 9/1/13, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:

> That was the original idea, removing the shortstring versions for not
> embedded targets, so that nobody accidentally could call shortstring
> versions.  (and only find out runtime)
>
> But that was deemed to confusing, so now both sets are back again.

If I understand you correctly:
This would mean that (in the cpstr branch) calling any IO function
with LongStrings (or the like) will NOT suffer from the problems the
shortstring counterparts have?

Bart



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