[fpc-devel] an observation about GetMem

[Jonas Maebe]

On 05 Sep 2008, at 17:25, Peter Popov wrote:

>> In FPC it is done by design. If 0 bytes are asked we allocate at  
>> least the minimum alignment to
>> get a valid pointer. This is done for compatibility with TP7.0 that  
>> returns the value of heapptr
>> which is also a valid pointer.
>
> Thanks for the clarification!
> I guess if you switch to reallocmem entirely, there will be delphi  
> compatibility, yes?

reallocmem indeed frees the memory and sets the pointer to nil if you  
specify "0" as the memory size.


Jonas