Re: Profiling Under Windows & String Size
- Posted by Kat <KSMiTH at PELL.NET> Aug 06, 1999
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----- Original Message ----- From: Lucius L. Hilley III <lhilley at CDC.NET> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 7:08 PM Subject: Re: Profiling Under Windows & String Size > We need to put that male/female symbol thing that the > Artist formerly known as Prince uses for his name into the > Unicode character set. We can't leave his name out. :) > > What this really comes to is this. > Do we want the memory managing control that C programmers > have to deal with? Obviously, we don't want the pointers. > Yes they have their advantages but they also have large > drawbacks. If we want pointers we can just allocate chunks > of memory and manage it ourselves. Do we want Multiple > different memory types? I stopped coding a big project in Pascal, and didn't move to Delphi, to avoid all that. I wanted to write and run a *program* , not a memory management unit. And i wanted fully dynamic arrays,, oops, sequences, sorta... actually, i did make those, but there was still a large wish list with pascal. <whine mode on > And i'd still like to have a Eu function like: "DDE TargetName DataFieldType Where/Data". Or "Socket TargetName Write/Read Data/Where". > That's it. We want our objects to be even more dynamic > than they already are. Has anyone tried to use those "extra" 3 bytes for anything? Will Eu keep them as you set them, or change them in some way? I suspect a gui would make good use of them, for formating the character. What happens to those 3 bytes if they get swapped the the hd and back into ram? Kat