> On Apr 13, 2017, at 10:29 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> SetLength *does* use a reallocate for this, but since it doesn't give you any
> guarantee for its success as its the task of the memory manager to deal with
> this, it's easier to assume that the array is indeed copied.
>
So the real point here is that ReAllocMem will copy and allocate a new block if
the old one can’t be resized, therefore this really isn’t about SetLength as
much as the memory manager itself.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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