Hello,
While porting some Delphi code, I found the following two
incomatibility issues. Should I report them as bugs?
Sample 1: It compiles both in Delphi and FPC, but FPC executable fails
at runtime. Delphi inserts temporary string variable and conversion
(array of char -> string), but FPC treats the pointer literally.
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const
TestData: array[0..7] of Char = 'abc'#10'def'#0;
procedure Test1;
var
sl: TStringList;
begin
sl := TStringList.Create;
sl.Text := string(@TestData[0]); // <- fails here
sl.Free;
end;
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Sample 2: This one compiles with Delphi (again, it inserts necessary
conversion Wide -> Ansi), but does not compile with FPC, neither in
objfpc nor in Delphi mode.
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function Test2: string;
var
buf: array[0..255] of char;
len: Integer;
begin
{ (skipped) I read USB string descriptor into buf. After that,
buf[0] contains length of descriptor in bytes, buf[1] = 3,
and rest is filled with Unicode chars. Now I want to convert it into
ASCII...
}
len := Integer(buf[0]) shr 1;
SetString(result, PWideChar(@buf[2]), len-1);
end;
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Best regards,
Sergei
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