On 12 Dec 2013, at 16:39, Adriaan van Os wrote:
Jonas Maebe wrote:
In theory, you should call "initialize" for every record/array
containing management types in your allocated block to be safe.
And in practice, you also have to call "finalize" again for every
record/array containing managed types (and for every separate
managed type too, I forgot to mention this earlier although I hope
that was implicitly clear) in that allocated block before freeing
it again (to prevent memory leaks).
Thanks for your reply. I feel comfortable calling "initialize" and
"finalize" for every managed type in the memory block that I
allocate/deallocate manually. However, can you elaborate why
"initialize" and "finalize" must be called for the containing record/
array too ? If my understanding of your reply is correct ?
If you call it for an array/record containing managed types, then then
compiler/rtl will initialise all managed fields/elements within that
array/record. Calling it for individual elements is only required if
they're not contained in a record/array.
Jonas
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