Marc Weustink wrote: >> >> Well, isn't that what heaptrc is for? > > No, the language should protect you from such easy to make mistakes.
I guess that's the ideal situation. Currently the language doesn't stop me from creating other memory leaks like not freeing a TStringList or other object instance. Using pointers can easily cause memory leaks too. No language features to prevent those - and we all seem to get along ok. :) > for such types) Weren't you recently involved in a discussion about > knowing the under-the-hood implementation of automated types and Please remind me of the message thread so I can recap. I'm part of a lot of discussions per day, so can't remember the details of them all. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel