On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> > On 8 mrt 2006, at 20:34, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > >>> What has 'alloc' to do with cleaning/zeroing? > >> > >> It is *the* difference between GetMem and AllocMem. > > > > Not in FPC. Reallocmem just resizes. No zeroing is done, as already > > explained > > by Jonas and Daniel. > > Yes, but allocmem() does zero the allocated memory (although our > documentation at http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/ > allocmem.html claims it's the same as getmem, that's not true -- I > guess because in Delphi it also zeroes the allocated memory with > allocmem). I'll change the docs accordingly. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel