I am trying to debug an decypher a third part library where the
author has used ansistrings in strange ways. For example he is
passing them to pointers and back.
It seems to me that this may be defeating the reference counting...
we are certainly getting strange errors where teh string is written
into unusual places in memory.
SO, I wrote a little app to examine the usage of ansistring. I have
failed to find any sign of reference counting. It is simply not there.
What am I missing. I am dumping the string and the 8 bytes
before it (4 for reference counting and 4 for length), the way Borland
docs say it is used). But the reference count is always -1. It
makes no sense.
Can someone enlighten me please.
Regards
Rohit
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