On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:43:56 Shane Miller wrote: > But it's compiled with > {$H+} > > Doesn't that cause it to use all ansistrings? Even ShortStrings must be initialized with nil, because strings are pointers. In objects this is done in InitInstance with fillchar(instance^,self.instancesize,0); For GetMem we must do it by ourselves. Mattias