[fpc-devel] Suggestion: reference counted objects

[Sven Barth]

On 21.09.2014 21:29, Peter Popov wrote:
> Sven,
> based on your comments a bizarre thought came to me. Currently, class
> instances are pointers. What you propose will somehow create a special
> pointer type (referenced class).

Huh? Why do you think that? It would just be that variables with a 
reference counted class type are handled differently. Isn't that exactly 
what you wanted? Leave normal classes untouched and add reference 
counting in such a way that it doesn't need to be used...

And I consider your pointer compression a really bad idea. It's bad to 
make assumptions about the memory layout especially when we have a 
general purpose compiler/RTL which would have no problems of using the 
complete address space.

Regards,
Sven