On Sun, 27 Apr 1997 17:34:47 +0200 (MET DST) Peter Gerwinski peter@agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de wrote:

Hello,

I encountered some problems with Procedures accepting `CString' parameters. When passing a string constant to such a parameter, GPC does *not* automatically add a "chr ( 0 )" terminator.

Should it do?

I personally think so.

And if so, in which cases?

"In all cases", I would venture to say.

We always can explicitly write "foo ( 'bar'#0 );" instead of just "foo ( 'bar' );", so I tend to let things like they are ...

The string constant parameter is something that thinks it is (or is pretending to be) a CString. Since CStrings end with a Chr(0), it is probably best to make the string constant do so automatically - otherwise, its pretensions would be found out very quickly.

Best regards, The Chief Dr Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief, and the Great Elephant) Author of: Chief's Installer Pro v3.12 for Win16 and Win32. Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/African_Chief/ E-mail: laa12@cc.keele.ac.uk