Op Wed, 18 Oct 2006, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Peter Vreman wrote:
>
> > >> Does the CmdLine variable in the System unit exist for Delphi/TP/...
> > >> compatibility ?
> > >
> > > Delphi compatibility.
> > >
> > > By the way, I have a patch ready which turns it into a property, which
> > > prevents some code being pulled in Hello World kind of apps.
> >
> > That is the best solution. It will then also be readonly.
>
> Do you get rid of the duplicate argc/argv and cmdline, then ?
No. Because cmdline is a Pchar which points to the heap, it cannot be
calculated on the fly; that would be a memory leak. Instead it is
calculated on the first use. This means however that it still needs to be
deallocated just like before.
Daniël
> Code like
>
> {$if defined(MSWINDOWS) or defined(OS2)}
> { finally release the heap if possible, especially
> important for DLLs }
> for i:=0 to argc do
> sysfreemem(argv[i]);
> sysfreemem(argv);
> {$endif}
> {$if defined(LINUX) or defined(BSD)}
> sysfreemem(cmdline);
> {$endif}
>
> seems rather strange to me...
>
> Michael.
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