[fpc-pascal] Question about functions returning a string

[leledumbo]

> So in general, one should not use managed types in the prototype of an
exported (public) function?

Bingo. At least not until we have properly sharable RTL.

> my thought was that it would be 
possible to pass along these managed types (especially string, as it is 
a pointer internally) to another pascal function (a callback in my case).

You can still pass pointer to its first element as a PChar, treating it
read-only in the caller for safety reason (though it's possible to make it
writable as well, but the safety burden is propagated to the caller).



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