On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 13:30, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara <[email protected]> wrote: > After reading http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19238 i wondered what's > the reason to FreeThenNil procedure found in LCLProc. > > What's the advantage over SysUtils FreeAndNil ?
That's a hack to work around the fact that some destructors may access the object being destroyed via the given pointer instead of directly. -- Alexander S. Klenin -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
