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Re: Are Strings and packed arrays of characters equivalent in
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Dennis Handly <[log in to unmask]>
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Dennis Handly <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 26 Oct 1996 03:41:06 GMT
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Dr. Ferenc Nagy ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Can I call generally the TurboImage and other system intrinsics with
: string[...] type parameters from Pascal?
: It might be true if the compiler passes the address of the first string
: element to the intrinsic instead of the address of the string length.

This is what the compiler is meant to do.  See the PG, page 10-6 under
"Strings as actual Parameters".

The length won't be updated.  Not unless you declare it as external C
and it is null terminated by the caller.

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