Strings and PChars (Was: New GPC beta: gpc-971001)_(re)

Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:55:39 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 02:36:00 +0200 Frank Heckenbach  
wrote:
>
>> >>   Str2pChar := StrNew ( StrCopy ( @s [1], @s[1] ) );
>> >
>> >I don't understand this line. What do you expect "StrCopy ( @s [1], @s[1] )"
>> >to do? AFAICS, it copies a string into itself!?
>>
>> More or less. Since it is already itself, nothing really should happen,
>> but the side effect is that it provides the input for StrNew to work with,
>
>You could just write "Str2pChar := StrNew ( @s[1] );" 

True.

>which gives the same (wrong) result in BP.

Now, that is the interesting bit. Both permutations give a wrong result
in BP (DOS real mode and DOS DPMI), but give correct results in
BP (Windows) and GPC (DJGPP). Shouldn't they all behave the same?

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