[Lazarus] Can't compile trunk with fpc 2.4.5 under ubuntu

[Michael Schnell]

On 02/28/2012 04:13 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
> And instead of introducing yet another type or another special 
> encoding we could just leverage the features FPC has today and use 
> TBytes.
I agree, if all features are in place:
  - its available out of the box (in the RTL)
  - it has all string functions in fully compatible way:
    - can do "+" (via operator overload)
    - can do pos(), copy(), delete() and friends via overloaded functions
    - conversion from and to Unicode String (via operator overload ? )
    - conversion to pchar (how ? )
    - does reference counting, lazy copy and auto re-alloc on resizing 
operations.
    - TByteStringList (are there more relevant string handling objects) 
is provided out of the box in a fully compatible and equally versatile way
  - no performance degradation.

If this is not possible I vote for simply doing ByteString = ANSIString 
(and TByteStringList = TANSIStringList)  (provided that "ANSIString" 
_is_ the pre 2009 String type as seemingly done in DXE).

-Michael
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