On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 18:36, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote:
> More importantly, another thing it would affect is that in case someone has > written their own fillchar with an out parameter, and *expects* reference > counted structures to be finalised at the caller side before they are > overwritten with zeroes by their routine. Changing that behaviour woud > a) result in memory leaks when using such a routine > b) not be fixable without manually adding finalize calls everywhere this > custom fillchar routine is called, since the required typeinfo is not > available at the callee side This does indeed sound like an horrible hack for me, but I do not understand the problem fully. Can you give an example code which would be (badly) affected by proposed change? -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
