On 19 Nov 2009, at 11:39, Thaddy wrote:
Jonas Maebe wrote:
If you change the behaviour of "out" so that such parameters are no
longer finalised before the routine is entered, then the above will
cause a memory leak. You can verify this by changing the "out rec"
parameter into "var rec".
Then this is definitely not a sextopod but an octopod. (really
serious bug) The "out" should behave like "var" + referencecount and
finalization outside the procedure or function.
That is exactly how it behaves right now, so I don't understand your
remark. My example is about what would happen if the behaviour of
"out" would be changed into the same as "var" (except that the
compiler would not give *hints* about potentially uninitialised data).
Jonas
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