Re: [fpc-pascal] reference counting of multi-dimensional array

2014-03-28 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 28/03/14 02:50, Xiangrong Fang wrote: var a2: array of array of Integer; i, j: Integer; begin SetLength(a2, 3); for i := 0 to 2 do begin SetLength(a[i], 3); for j := 0 to 2 do a[i][j] := 1; end; a2 := nil; <-- will this free all memory of a[0]...a[2]? end; Yes.

[fpc-pascal] reference counting of multi-dimensional array

2014-03-27 Thread Xiangrong Fang
If I have this: var a2: array of array of Integer; i, j: Integer; begin SetLength(a2, 3); for i := 0 to 2 do begin SetLength(a[i], 3); for j := 0 to 2 do a[i][j] := 1; end; a2 := nil; <-- will this free all memory of a[0]...a[2]? end; Thanks! Xiangrong ___

Re: [fpc-pascal] Reference Counting

2010-04-05 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 05/04/2010, cobines wrote: > >> > > I'm not sure that is correct. Once you free Test, Pest still points to > > the same non existing object and you can use assigned to check it, > > > Pest would be a dangling pointer and should not be accessed. Correct, and that was what I was trying to get

Re: [fpc-pascal] Reference Counting

2010-04-04 Thread cobines
2010/4/5 Werner Van Belle : >> Pest was just a reference pointer to the first instance, so no need to >> free it. But setting it to nil after Test was freed is a good habit. >> > I'm not sure that is correct. Once you free Test, Pest still points to > the same non existing object and you can use as

Re: [fpc-pascal] Reference Counting

2010-04-04 Thread Werner Van Belle
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >> Test:=nil; >> > > This causes a memory leak - you did not actually free the class > instance. You need to call: Test.Free; > Of course I didn't call free; I was hoping that the reference counter would solve that little problem. If I need to free stuff myself,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Reference Counting

2010-04-04 Thread Paul Ishenin
04.04.2010 22:53, Zaher Dirkey wrote: But he must use variable of interface to use TInterfacedObject not variable of TObject to take this advantage (if i am not wrong). You are not wrong. Best regards, Paul Ishenin. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Reference Counting

2010-04-04 Thread Zaher Dirkey
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 3 April 2010 21:01, Werner Van Belle wrote: > If you wanted real reference counted objects that gets freed > automatically when nothing is referencing it, then create a descendant > of TInterfacedObject. > > But he must use variable

Re: [fpc-pascal] Reference Counting

2010-04-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 April 2010 21:01, Werner Van Belle wrote: > > Type >   TReferenceCount = Class That is the same as... TReferenceCount = class(TObject) > var >   Test    : TReferenceCount; >   Pest    : TReferenceCount; > begin >   Test:=TReferenceCount.Create(); ...snip... >   Test:=nil; This caus

[fpc-pascal] Reference Counting

2010-04-03 Thread Werner Van Belle
Hello Dear Freepascal users, I'm a newbee to object pascal. I did however program in turbo pascal. The past couple of days I learned that there exist a variety of classes/object systems in freepascal. Now, I already figured out that the generic class generators are that what we are looking for, wh