[fpc-devel] Erroneous finalizing of const widestring array

[Yury Sidorov]

> From: "Daniël Mantione" <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org>
> Op Sun, 1 Jul 2007, schreef Martin Schreiber:
> > On Saturday 30 June 2007 14.46, Yury Sidorov wrote:
> > > From: "Yury Sidorov" <jura at cp-lab.com>
> > >
> > > > From: "Martin Schreiber" <fpmse at bluewin.ch>
> > > >
> > > >> Possible show stopper for FPC 2.2:
> > > >> http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=9170
> > > >>
> > > >> I suspect there are more problems, I can only debug one by 
> > > >> one.
> > > >
> > > > Fixed and merged to fixes.
> > >
> > > Martin, please inform us when FPC 2.1.5 will work as expected 
> > > with
> > > your code and no more bugs will be left.
> > > After that 2.2 release can be launched.
> > >
> > Another blocker:
> >
> > http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=9190
> >
> > Hopefully the last, it leads to spurions crashes of MSEide.
> > Seems not so easy to fix without performance loss.
> > What about an reference counted widestring type for win32?
>
> The main issue with extra string types is that the number of 
> possible
> conversions is n*n-n. With 2 string types you need to handle just 2
> conversions. With the current 3, we have 3*3-3=6 conversions. With 
> 4, it
> becomes 12 conversions.
>
> It would be 2.3+, and would not remove the need to have bug free non
> reference counted widestrings.

Fully agree.

Yury.