[fpc-pascal] reference-counted function results not initialized to nil

Martin Schreiber mse00000 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 26 15:52:26 CEST 2016


On Sunday 26 June 2016 12:09:58 Jc3bcrgen Hestermann wrote:
>
> The only exception (at least since FPC 3) is the function result
> which is totally unexpected.
> Why such an exception?
>
I don't think one could treat a function result as a normal local variable. 
The reason why not to initialise the result variable is because in many cases 
it is not necessary and reduces performance.

Martin



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