[fpc-pascal] Question about functions returning a string

[Dan]

On Nov 29, 2014 3:55 AM, "Ewald" <ewald at yellowcouch.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Take the following function prototype (in {$mode objfpc}{$H+} for the
> record):
>
>     Function SomeFunction(const Data: PChar; const Len: LongWord):
> String; cdecl; public;
>
> Looking at the dissasembly of this function, I see that is actually has
> three arguments. It looks more like this from an assembler perspective:
>
>     Function SomeFunction(HiddenArgument: Pointer; const Data: PChar;
> const Len: LongWord): String; cdecl; public;
>
> Which is, well, quite fascinating really. What is it doing there? I
> suspect it has something to do with the result type of the function,
> being a string?
>
> Can anybody shed some light on this?
>
> --
> Ewald
>
>
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