Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: > Hi, > > Which of these should I use in new projects? I read somewhere that > GetMem/FreeMem is actually compatibility methods from Turbo Pascal > days, yet I have seen lots of new code that uses it, so I guess it's > still ok to use?
GetMem/FreeMem are lower level than new/dispose. Use New/Dispose as much as possible. > > I have various complex structured types and pointers to those types. > Will New() and Dispose() automatically know what size to allocated and > deallocate, seeing that it doesn't have a Size parameter? Yes. It initializes/finalizes even automated types what Get/FreeMem doesn't do. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
