Hi, I think I've found a bug in the latest beta snapshot of gpc (linked against gcc 2.8.1). Basically, when assigning one string to another the result seems to be a null string. A program that isolates the bug is included below:

program baby;

type BigString = String[200];

type trec = record s : bigstring; a : integer; end; prec = ^trec;

var r : prec; b : BigString;

begin {memmanagerinit(10);} b:='Hello world'; r:=GetMem(sizeof(trec)); r^.s:=b; r^.a:=1245; WriteLn(r^.a); write('Message '); writeln(r^.s); writeln('String ',b); end.