On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Chad Berchek <ad...@vobarian.com> wrote: > > 1. It seems that if a string is a (non-const) local variable it should be > safe. I base this on the following reasoning: >
looks like it's not: procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var S: string; procedure SideEffectCall; begin SetLength(S, 0); end; function CalcSomething(const T: string): integer; begin Result:=0; SideEffectCall; MessageDlg(T, mtInformation, [mbOk], 0); // crash here end; begin S:='12345678901234567890'; S:=S + S; CalcSomething(S); end; _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel