PATCH: Pascal Strings -- WITHDRAWN

[Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>]

On Thursday, July 5, 2001, at 02:31 , Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> The uses of (1 << CHAR_TYPE_SIZE) + 1 should I think be ... - 1.  Also,
> this expression will overflow when CHAR_TYPE_SIZE is the same as the 
> size
> of host int (e.g., cross from 32-bit system to C4X - and C4X is the only
> live target with non-8-bit chars in the FSF tree).

The "+ 1" part is correct; please check the surrounding logic.

Actually, now I realize that 255 as the length limit was right in the 
first
place.  Aside from avoiding the overflow problem described here, 255 
ensures \
that Pascal strings are *portable*. Correct me if I'm wrong, but one 
wouldn't
want to have 1000-char Pascal strings that compile fine on one platform 
but
not on others.

At any rate, I'd like to withdraw the Pascal string patch submission; 
these
shall remain local to Apple for now.  I simply cannot justify spending 
more
of my employer's time and money on this.

--Zem
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