alt Hacker NewsClang and GCC both let you use Pascal strings in C if you would like (with `\p`). But Pascal strings aren't that useful today because the maximum length is too short.
Clang and GCC both let you use Pascal strings in C if you would like (with `\p`). But Pascal strings aren't that useful today because the maximum length is too short.
Why would a pascal string be any shorter than a C string?
A C string is one pointer reaching all of memory, a Pascal string is two pointers reaching all of memory