On Monday 20 August 2012 09:52:47 Sven Barth wrote: > > Just to avoid confusion: The reference counted 2-byte string type on all > platforms is UnicodeString, not WideString (the latter is not reference > counted on Windows platforms). > WideString was reference counted on Windows when it was introduced in FPC. The FPC revision was 1.9.x IIRC. The first bug report I made in "wide" area is from 30.4.2004 and revision 1.9.3. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=5084
Later it has been changed to OLE string on Windows because of Delphi compatibility. http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel%40lists.freepascal.org/msg07520.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel%40lists.freepascal.org/msg03010.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel%40lists.freepascal.org/msg03018.html Martin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel