> A Pascal operating system for instance would use Pascal strings Only if the designers would make that decision, and they are not in any way obliged to make s

> A Pascal operating system for instance would use Pascal strings Only if the designers would make that decision, and they are not in any way obliged to make such decision! Nobody stops them from using e.g. a moral equivalent of "RECORD size: CARDINAL; str_ptr: ^CHAR END" for passing strings in their system calls (which would probably coincide with using "size_t size, char *str_ptr" in the C prototype at the binary level), or something else entirely. Is the idea of an OS not exposing its implementation language in its public API that foreign so I have to express it three times in this thread and every time be replied with "No, what are you talking about, of course the OS would use reuse the structures of the runtime of the language that it is written in in its public syscall API"? Gee, I wonder how the syscall calling convention would look if I wrote an OS entirely in assembly.