> if when someone does pcharvar := ansistringvar or pwidecharvar := > widestringvar we increased the refcount every program that used that > construct would leak memory.
Normally I would aggree with you, but as far as I can see, PWideChar is also an automated type. (If not then large parts of the variant-code in the RTL has to be rewritten, and probably alsoe the wstrings.inc file) >From wstrings.inc: WideString is defined as a 'silent' pwidechar : a pwidechar that points to : @-8 : SizeInt for reference count; @-4 : SizeInt for size; @ : String + Terminating #0; Pwidechar(Widestring) is a valid typecast. So WS[i] is converted to the address @WS+i-1. So there is a bug somewhere. But if they should not be refcounted, that's ok. But then I have some fixs for the variant-code Joost _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
