On 20/05/2019 11:01 pm, Giuliano Colla wrote: > In some rare case when dealing with complex objects you might need > FreeThenNil() in place of FreeAndNil().
As far as I'm concerned, that is such a broken concept! The developer already has the burden to free any memory that he/she allocates. With what you are saying, it is now expected from the developer to look at all source code, flip and coin to decide how complex it is (that will vary between developers) and then decide which Free(Then|And)Nil() function to call!? That should really be left up to the compiler and should be of no concern to the developer. Or there is a much simpler answer - the code the developer is working on is severely broken and needs some refactoring and decoupling of dependencies. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
