> Alexey Barkovoy wrote: >> PAnsiChar, PChar are just pointers and not garbage collected by >> compiler. But >> AnsiString and WideString are compiler managed types. So, as Peter >> mentioned, >> behaviour you are seeing is by design. > > In Delphi WideString is not reference counted at all. The layout of the > string prefix is dictated by the Windows API (BSTR type), and AFAIK > Windows also doesn't use reference counting with this type, or with > OLEVariants containing wide strings.
That is something Windows specific. For Kylix it is reference counted. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
