On 30 Sep 2010, at 19:21, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > Jonas Maebe schrieb: > >>>> As far as allocated memory is concerned: yes. It does free a bunch of >>>> stuff when an error occurs, but not everything, and what is not freed >>>> depends on the error. >>> >>> Ok. Thanks. >>> And I guess there are currently no plans to fix this, right? >> No, because it would be lots of work (writing test programs that trigger all >> possible error conditions and testing/debugging them one by one, or >> implementing some kind of mark/release system) with no real payoff except if >> you're an IDE developer that wants to integrate the compiler. > > IMO you simply don't understand the reason for my NoGlobals refactoring
I indeed probably don't, and certainly not in this context. Especially because the memory leaks above are virtually all caused by *local* variables that are not cleaned up properly in case of an error, while on the contrary most if not all global variables are destroyed/freed under all circumstances. Jonas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
