pascal strings in C

pascal strings in C

[Andy]

Dear GCC Developers:

I'm working on porting a project which uses pascal-style strings in C++ 
code, for example like this:   unsigned char *str = "\phello";

Please could you tell me if it is possible to make GCC support these 
pascal strings.

I did some searches and noticed that a pascal string patch was submitted 
in 2001, but I don't know whether it made it into GCC.  I tried using the 
"-fpascal-strings" option with GCC, but it said it was unrecognized.  
What can I do?

I notice that Apple's version of GCC supports the "-fpascal-strings" 
option.  Has this feature been integrated into the main distribution?  I 
suppose I could try to use Apple's version of GCC, but that probably 
won't work because I need to compile for x86, not PowerPC.

Please reply to:  spamme416@optusnet.com.au

Thanks very much.

Andy

Re: pascal strings in C

[Dale Johannesen]

On Nov 16, 2003, at 5:50 PM, Andy wrote:
> I'm working on porting a project which uses pascal-style strings in C++
> code, for example like this:   unsigned char *str = "\phello";
>
> Please could you tell me if it is possible to make GCC support these
> pascal strings.
>
> I did some searches and noticed that a pascal string patch was 
> submitted
> in 2001, but I don't know whether it made it into GCC.  I tried using 
> the
> "-fpascal-strings" option with GCC, but it said it was unrecognized.
> What can I do?
>
> I notice that Apple's version of GCC supports the "-fpascal-strings"
> option.  Has this feature been integrated into the main distribution?  
> I
> suppose I could try to use Apple's version of GCC, but that probably
> won't work because I need to compile for x86, not PowerPC.

The 2001 patch came from Apple and was not accepted into the mainline 
compiler.

I'd suggest trying Apple's version (still 3.3 based).  We can't promise
that the x86 back end works, but there's a reasonable chance it does.