On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:31:36 Thaddy wrote: > > afaik widestrings are reference counted in Delphi. PWideChars not.
According my experience, the Delphi7/Kylix3 documentation and this article: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/21301 " WideStrings are now reference counted. In Windows, the Delphi WideString is implemented as an Ole BSTR to maximize data compatibility with OLE and ActiveX APIs. Ole BSTRs / WideStrings are not reference counted like Delphi AnsiStrings, so WideStrings tend to be a bit promiscuous in copying themselves all over the place. In Linux, there is no WideString compatibility requirement or issue, so we've reimplemented WideStrings to use the same copy-on-write reference count semantics as AnsiStrings. In fact, Kylix WideStrings use many of the same internal RTL support functions as AnsiStrings! How's that for code reuse! " you are wrong. Martin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
