Am 11.01.2017 08:54 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <mschn...@lumino.de>: > > On 10.01.2017 05:13, Jon Foster wrote: >> >> On 01/07/2017 10:39 AM, leledumbo wrote: >> >> So that leaves me with the question: What about destructors? Must I call free/destroy on all objects I create, or do they self-destruct? If so destroy or free? > > > AFAIU, in fpc destroying any objects is mandatory. And this close to always needs to be done with "Free" (which inside the class finally calls Destroy). > > If destroying an object is not necessary, the class should provide a dummy Free procedure. So the application programmer always can/should use Free.
We're talking about JVM here where garbage collections *must* be used. So FPC does as well for that target. Regards, Sven
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