Thanks, Joost, for all of your answers! It looks like I need to write *more* cleanup code, and double-check it all.
One question remains: > After calling setlength, the items in the array are not initialised. > > [...] > > Initialising the strings you can do by setting them to an empty > string. (s := '') I had the impression that an ansistring is essentially a special kind of pointer. Since the *pointer* contains random (not nil) data, then ... if I assign it to empty-string, wouldn't fpc treat the old random pointer reference as an ansistring that needs to have its reference count decremented? For this reason, I have previously used fillchar to nil those out. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
