Am 04.04.2017 12:52 schrieb "Mark Morgan Lloyd" <
markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk>:
>
> On 02/04/17 10:00, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
>> Allocating new memory via setlength also clears the memory (+ the
>> overhead of allocating the memory).
>
>
> Jonas, is it still the case that if SetLength() results in existing data
being moved that the original- which might be e.g. an unencrypted password-
isn't cleared?

The reallocation is delegated to the memory manager, thus SetLength() can
not know what is really done with the data area.

Regards,
Sven
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