On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:21:54 Martin Schreiber wrote: > On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:07:48 Jonas Maebe wrote: > > On 15 Sep 2009, at 14:54, Michael Schnell wrote: > > > Martin Schreiber wrote: > > >> On Windows widestring is actual a > > >> not reference counted OLE-string. > > > > > > How can decent (and System independent) coding be done with not > > > reference counting (variable length) strings ? > > > > Ask Microsoft and Borland. Microsoft defined their OLE-string like > > that, and Borland defined Ansistring on Windows that way. > > Delphi widestrings on Windows, Kylix widestrings on Linux and Delphi/Kylix > ansistrings are reference counted. > Hmm, this is misleading, again:
Delphi widestrings on Windows are not reference counted, Kylix widestrings on Linux and Delphi/Kylix ansistrings are reference counted. Martin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel