Am 10.05.2021 um 23:18 schrieb Ryan Joseph via fpc-devel:
On May 10, 2021, at 3:05 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel
<fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
Why should they? You pass the reference to a non-reference counted
parameter/field/variable, the reference count is increased and then what? It
sits there for the remaining life time of the program, because nothing
decrements the reference count?
I see what you mean. The FGL containers also call Finalize though when the
container is freed so it does indeed keep balanced.
But only if the generic container is indeed specialized with the
refcounted type. If it's e.g. TObject then the whole thing is up in the
air again, because the whole point is that we *don't* want to burden
non-reference counted class types with the reference counting stuff (and
the need to check at runtime whether the type is reference counted or
not *is* a burden).
Regards,
Sven
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