Re: [ooc-compiler] Understanding system flags

[Michael v. A. <mic...@gm...>]

On 01/07/06, Frank Copeland <fj...@th...> wrote:
>
> > On 28/06/06, *Frank Copeland* <fj...@th...
> > <mailto:fj...@th...>> wrote:
> [...]
> >     On the other hand, Module C declares a C string as:
> >
> >     TYPE
> >        char* = CHAR;
> >        string* = POINTER [CSTRING] TO ARRAY OF char;
>
> Michael van Acken wrote:
>
> > The definition from C  is in full
> >
> >   string* = POINTER [NO_LENGTH_INFO, NO_DESCRIPTOR, CSTRING] TO ARRAY OF
> > char;
> >
> > due to the implicit flags induced by INTERFACE.
>
> Does it matter whether the flags are attached to the POINTER part of the
> declaration or the ARRAY part? Would:
>
>    string* = POINTER [CSTRING] TO ARRAY [NO_LENGTH_INFO, NO_DESCRIPTOR] OF
> char;
>
> be an equivalent declaration?


My mistake.  I have not checked with the actual implementation, but the NO_*
flags are
almost certainly attached to the ARRAY.  Your declaration is the correct
one.

-- mva