Hello.

I have definitions:

PluginDir: packed array [0..Pred(16384)] of AnsiChar;
sName: AnsiString;

When I assign AnsiString to array of Char compiler generates code like this:

-4(%ebp) is source string
-17252(%ebp) is local temporary array
4(%ebx) is my destination array of char

# [411] PluginDir:= sName;
movl -4(%ebp),%ecx
leal -17252(%ebp),%eax
movl $16383,%edx
call fpc_ansistr_to_chararray
leal 4(%ebx),%edi
leal -17252(%ebp),%esi
cld
movl $4096,%ecx
rep
movsl

The result is copying data twice and as you see array is quite big. Is it not possible to write directly to 4(%ebx)?

FPC 2.7.1 i386-Linux