On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Alexander Klenin wrote:

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.

Can you explain this ?

Because to my understanding the code does exactly the same.

Michael.

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