Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On 2005-04-08, CBFalconer <cbfalconer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Marco van de Voort wrote:
>
>>> than either in padded or zero terminated form?
>>
>> They are more expensive in memory allocation. Many moons ago I was
>> using one of the Turbos and I had a recursive routine that included
>> some string manipulation. It didn't even declare any string
>> variables. It proceeded to crash the system with a stack overflow.
>
> How? If I declare a string everywhere where I would normally do an
> array of char, and pass by ref, how could this happen?
I forget the gory details, but remember the end effect. Basically
TP insisted on internally reserving space for several tem****ary 256
char strings in which to perform the string operations. I thought
I explained that before.
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