On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 5:40 PM Bart <bartjun...@gmail.com> wrote: > const > x = ShortString('abc'); > begin > writeln(SizeOf(x)); > end. > > Delphi (7) prints 256, fpc prints 3. > > Is that a bug or an implementation detail? >
Implementation detail. And it seems to be wrong on Delphi size, because for reason it assigns a type to a (non-typed) constant. It would make sense to return 256, if the constant was declared like this: const x : ShortString = 'abc'; and fpc does recognize such typed constant as 256 in size. It's odd that such expression compiles w/o any warnings or notes. (i.e. "ignoring typecasting for constant value expressions") thanks, Dmitry
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