[fpc-pascal]Pointer Help

[James Mills]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:12:07PM +0100, Anton Tichawa wrote:
> On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:54, you wrote:
> 
> > freeMem(tmpStrings, sizeOf(String) * (N));
> 
> No, only:
> 
> freeMem(tmpStrings);

But getMem and reAllocMem allocate a number of bytes on the heap,
wouldn't you have to free that number of bytes using freeMem(pointer, n)
?

cheers
James

Btw, I'm using short strings, so I think it'll be ok for now...

> 
> Read the Manual - Free Pascal Programmer's Manual, Section 4.5, "Writing Your 
> Own Memory Manager" - because that's what you're actually doing.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Anton Tichawa.
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