On 11 dec 2005, at 22:22, Alexandrov Alexandru wrote:
It depends on the specs of "length" :-)
What do you mean with specs?
How it is defined to behave in the documentation (i.e., whether the
documentation says "if you call length with as argument a nil
pointer, the result is defined to be 0", or "the behaviour of length
with as argument a nil pointer is undefined", or simply doesn't
mention it at all).
btw i forgot to mention, i tested on winxp.
In Delphi the result is 0, and no error.
Delphi obviously is a lot more tolerant to bad programming than we
are... A pchar which is nil is not an empty string, but an invalid
pointer. It's like assuming that a nil pointer to a longint is the
same as a pointer to the value 0 or so.
Jonas
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