alt Hacker NewsWhy 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
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Conscat • today at 7:22 AM
A Pascal string has a leading length byte. Because that is one byte, the text can't exceed 255 characters.
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A pascal string is a single byte with the length, followed by the data.
Some implementations use more bytes for the length data, such as Delphi which changed over to a 4 byte prefix length, though those aren't technically Pascal strings anymore. I can't find anything about a Pascal string being two pointers?