According to Ken Linder:

the compiler will generate code to convert the string schema type to a real CString with '/0' termination and everything... Am I right or was I seeing things? (it is rather late here in Las Vegas, NV, USA) BTW, I am using ver 2.0 GPC on Linux and when I tried it, got an 'incompatible type' error. No suprise there :^}

`CString' handling has been significantly improved since the days of gpc-2.0. Please take part in beta-testing gpc-970624, available at ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/beta/.

Why do we have __cstring__ anyway? It seems as though we could get away with just declaring a type like: CString = ^Char Unless it does something else I don't see yet |-)

It's needed for compatibility with C, Borland Pascal, and Delphi. (For the latter cases it can also be called `PChar' now.) And, BTW, in gpc-970624 you can drop the underscores.

Greetings,

Peter

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