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While working on the Android2DelphiImport tool, I had to get strings converted into the PAnsiChar format.
A little known record, TMarshaller, in System.SysUtils helped. It has various methods to deal with string conversions and memory allocation, and when your method exits, it cleans up the memory for you as well.
Here's how I got my PAnsiChar.
var M: TMarshaller; P: Pointer; begin ... ... P := M.AsAnsi('We are about to be converted into a PChar').ToPointer; // P is now a PAnsiChar // Similarly, to get a UTF8String, M.AsUtf8('Use the source!').ToPointer; end;
Thanks that helped me! Keep posting, it really helps !
A method to design records so that they're allocated on a specific byte boundary, such as 16 bytes, 512 bytes, 4096 bytes, etc.