1. Re: Pascal Strings
Adam Weeden wrote:
>in pascal strings are stored like this say you have the word PASCAL and it
>starts at memory location 13672 (this is an arbitrary no.)
>
>then the map of the memory would like
>
>13672 13673 13674 13675 13676 13677 13678
> "P" "A" "S" "C" "A" "L" "\0"
>
>the "\0" at the end tells it that the string is over.
This describes 'C' strings, but I was under the impression that PASCAL
strings were stored like FORTH strings - the first byte held the count. That
limits the string length to 255 bytes:
13672 13673 13674 13675 13676 13677 13678
6 'P' 'A' 'S' 'C' 'A'
'L'
-- David Cuny
