On 26 Feb 2011, at 11:15, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, leledumbo wrote: > >>> can i pass ansistrings ? >> >> Yes, but only if you know what you're doing. NEVER modify the passed strings >> (it would confuse the reference counting). Use const parameter all the time. > > It will almost certainly lead to memory leaks, because a simple > a:=b; > inside the library with b passed on from the main program, will lead to > problems as soon as the library is unloaded.
It shouldn't matter with cmem/sharemem, because a) unloading a library from within one of its own routines is not possible, so there cannot be any local variables in the shared libraries holding a reference at such a point b) global variables are finalised when the library is unloaded Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
