> On Oct 6, 2022, at 12:45 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Am 05.10.2022 um 14:16 schrieb Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal: >> Is it possible to assign a class to a variant? I tried and get a crash. If >> not, why not? It’s just a pointer so I would expect it to work. > > There is no field that would hold a class reference and no type value that > would differentiate it, thus the code handling variants would not be able to > finalize (aka free) a class correctly. You can of course always use a custom > type and handle that yourself. *shrugs*
Oh so the problem is variant thinks it should try to manage memory for you? I tried doing: v: variant; begin v := GetMem(100); And that crashed also. I thought it would be ok to just hold the reference but not claim ownership over it. Regards, Ryan Joseph _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal