[Lazarus] strcat problem

[José Mejuto]

El 23/06/2016 a las 21:08, Koenraad Lelong escribió:
> Op 23-06-16 om 16:58 schreef David W Noon:
>> [snip]
>>> cTekst:=#13'Now is the winter of our discontent'#13;
>>
>> You need a trailing #0 byte on the end.
>>
>
> The definition of cTekst :
> var
>    cTekst : PChar;
>
> So the compiler knows cTekst is a 0-terminated string doesn't, it ?
> And StrCat needs two parameters : PChar and PChar. So I think the
> compiler knows the strings are zero-terminated.
> Besides, on my OpenSuse-box it works, or is that by chance ?

Hello,

Did you allocated the memory for the pchar ? Did you allocated memory 
enough in target pchar to hold the large string after the strcat's ?

This code sample is wrong:

cTekst:=#13'text'#13;
strcat(cTekst,'other string');

The first assigns pchar to a read only memory block at compile time, and 
at runtime next bytes (not allocated) are overwritten with "other 
string" which will SIGSEGV for sure.


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