[fpc-devel] Improving Ref Counting

[Jamie McCracken]

Peter Vreman wrote:
>>>Why are you looking at GC/Refcounting when the problem is the
>>>try..finally?
>>>It is better to rewrite the try..finally code using the C++ ABI for
>>>exception handling.
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>>Where do you see improvements in the C++ ABI? Or even differences?
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>>Windows implements this ABI, and every language should use it in the
>>intended way. Perhaps FPC implements a different method on other
>>systems?
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> FPC uses an platform independent method. The C++ ABI isn't used.

But it could be used on platforms that have a "fairly" stable and 
standardised C++ ABI (windows and Linux mainly). Other platforms can use 
the current FPC generic method as a fallback.

jamie.


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