> On Apr 6, 2017, at 4:26 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> It's a difficult topic, cause in Object Pascal class instances are always on
> the heap while in C++ they might be on the stack as well. Thus a C++ compiler
> will insert calls to the destructor of such an object if it goes out of scope.
>
> In Object Pascal currently only reference counted interfaces and (new in
> trunk) records with management operators provide this feature.
I see, but since there is a reference to an instance on the stack wouldn’t it
be trivial for the compiler to invoke a method on TObject descendants when they
go out of scope? If it does it for compiler types like dynamic arrays I imagine
it could do the same for classes.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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