On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Marc Weustink via fpc-devel wrote:
Hi,
I ran into an issue with a piece of ported Delphi (6) code and RTTI.
Part of the Delphi code was based on strings with a RTTI type tkLString
where in FPC the type appeared to be tkAString. Fixing this was easy,
but it made me wonder what the difference is between them.
From the documentation:
Source position: rttih.inc line 22
type TTypeKind = (
...
tkLString, Longstring property.
tkAString, Ansistring property.
So there is apparently a LongString type and an AnsiString type. However
if you search (google) the documentation on LongString, you only find
references to AnsiString.
My question: What is the difference (if any) ?
This dates from long ago...
Longstring was an idea for a shortstring/ansistring kind of string -
unlimited length but no reference counting.
But it was never fully implemented.
Michael.
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