Re: [fpc-pascal] New Dispose and FreeMem and objects

2011-08-26 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 27 Aug 2011, at 00:18, Andrew Haines wrote: > Ok so freemem is okay as long as I am careful about the members of the > object. There may be other problems I'm not thinking of right now. I don't understand why you want to use freemem for objects, since the only difference with dispose is tha

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Dispose and FreeMem and objects

2011-08-26 Thread Andrew Haines
On 08/26/11 17:14, Jonas Maebe wrote: > > On 26 Aug 2011, at 22:39, Andrew Haines wrote: > >> Maybe Dispose can call a destructor and that is the difference between >> Dispose and FreeMem? > > The other difference is that dispose() will finalize any reference counted > fields, while freemem won

Re: [fpc-pascal] New Dispose and FreeMem and objects

2011-08-26 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 26 Aug 2011, at 22:39, Andrew Haines wrote: > Maybe Dispose can call a destructor and that is the difference between > Dispose and FreeMem? The other difference is that dispose() will finalize any reference counted fields, while freemem won't. Jonas_