[fpc-pascal] New/Dispose vs GetMem/FreeMem

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi,

Which of these should I use in new projects? I read somewhere that
GetMem/FreeMem is actually compatibility methods from Turbo Pascal
days, yet I have seen lots of new code that uses it, so I guess it's
still ok to use?

I have various complex structured types and pointers to those types.
Will New() and Dispose() automatically know what size to allocated and
deallocate, seeing that it doesn't have a Size parameter?


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Regards,
  - Graeme -


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