On 10/31/07, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/31/07, Joao Morais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > They are reference counted, just like ansi strings, ie don't worry about > > > memory leakages. > > > > The detail that is not crystal clear to me is : after the first SetLength > > and i set the first 3 elements , is it *guaranteed* that the > > second SetLength > > leaves those first 3 elements untouched ? > > Yes. But they can be copied, so address to them might be invalid. > > > That's what i meant by "resize" as opposed to "reallocate" . Reallocation > > could occur in some other place in memory , leading to loosing the > > original contents. > > It does resize if possible, reallocate (and copy the original data as far as > it fits) else.
Thanks for the info! -- Adrian Maier _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
