According to The African Chief:

Great! Now one last thing about pChars - can you make them type-compatible with zero-based arrays of Char?

It seems to work already ... my GPC just compiled:

program foobar;

{$X+}

function foo ( p : pChar ) : pChar; Begin foo := succ ( p, 2 ); End;

Var x : array [ 0..4 ] of Char value 'xyOK'#0;

Begin writeln ( foo ( x ) ); End.

(Note that the (*$X+*) directive is needed to enable both pointer arithmetics and `pChar's being treated as Strings.)

Greetings,

Peter

Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201] maintainer GNU Pascal [970510] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]