Sorry for the double posting, the emails took a long time to get through. > It's exactly the same principle as using cmem, just that you are > using another memory manager than the one of the standard C library. > It has the same advantages (can return and accept ansistrings to/from > FPC-compiled programs and libararies) and problems (must not return > and accept ansistrings to/from programs not compiled with FPC). Well, > another advantage is of course for OS'es where the interface to libc > changes all the time (although I doubt the interface to malloc/free > etc will change anytime soon). > >
And this case we use FPC mem manager rather than relying on our operating system friend - just makes me feel better to be able to utilize FPC mem manager if I can! _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal