(non-dynamic arrays, records, shortstrings)
- removed the ability to typecast such types directly into related class
types, you have to use the @-operator first now to get a pointer to
the type
o updated the RTL and internal compiler code to properly use this
new convention
o allowed removing several special cases from
tjvmtypeconvnode.target_specific_general_typeconv(), and that
method can probably be removed completely over time
* no longer give compile time errors for pointer-related typecasts that
will fail at run time, because the checking was too complex and could
be worked around via actual pointer typecasts anyway
* removed some unnecessary checkcast operations (for shortstring/
shortstringclass)
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o support for ansistring constants. It's done via a detour because the
JVM only supports UTF-16 string constants (no array of byte or anything
like that): store every ansicharacter in the lower 8 bits of an
UTF-16 constant string, and at run time copy the characters to an
ansistring. The alternative is to generate code that stores every
character separately to an array.
o the base ansistring support is implemented in a class called
AnsistringClass, and an ansistring is simply an instance of this
class under the hood
o the compiler currently does generate nil pointers as empty
ansistrings unlike for unicodestrings, where we always
explicitly generate an empty string. The reason is that
unicodestrings are the same as JLString and hence common
for Java interoperation, while ansistrings are unlikely to
be used in interaction with external Java code
* fixed indentation
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in a single statement, to be added later)
o the unicodestrings are internally simply java.lang.String instances
o at the language level, the unicodestrings are assignment-compatible
with java.lang.String
o constant strings can be implicitly converted to java.lang.String
o since java.lang.String is immutable, in particular changing a
single character in a string is extremely inefficient. This could
be solved by letting unicodestring map to java.lang.StringBuilder,
but that would make integration with plain Java code harder
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