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
Above is just an internal description of WideString layout in memory, so this layout allows easy type conversion of WideString to PWideChar. Note: PWideChar, PAnsiChar, PChar are just pointers and not garbage collected by compiler. But AnsiString and WideString are compiler managed types. So, as Peter mentioned, behaviour you are seeing is by design.
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