Re: [fpc-pascal] strlen and nil

2012-08-01 Thread michael . vancanneyt 



On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Mattias Gaertner wrote:


On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:21:05 +0200 (CEST)
mar...@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote:


In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:

What does strlen return on nil?
The FPC function strlen is implemented via FPC_PCHAR_LENGTH.
The documentation does not say what happens when passing nil.


Both the generic and assembler implementation return 0.


Thanks.
Can this be added to the docs?


Done. rev. 930.

Michael.
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Re: [fpc-pascal] strlen and nil

2012-08-01 Thread Mattias Gaertner 
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:21:05 +0200 (CEST)
mar...@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote:

> In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:
> > What does strlen return on nil?
> > The FPC function strlen is implemented via FPC_PCHAR_LENGTH.
> > The documentation does not say what happens when passing nil.
> 
> Both the generic and assembler implementation return 0.

Thanks.
Can this be added to the docs?

Mattias
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Re: [fpc-pascal] strlen and nil

2012-08-01 Thread Marco van de Voort 
In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:
> What does strlen return on nil?
> The FPC function strlen is implemented via FPC_PCHAR_LENGTH.
> The documentation does not say what happens when passing nil.

Both the generic and assembler implementation return 0.
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