[fpc-devel] TFPHashList (Was: Alternative parsers)

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Marco van de Voort schrieb:

>> PChars, on the other hand, require manual memory management
>> which is the source of bugs.
> 
> Point out the example of bugs. (ones that matter, not the stylistic ones)

The usage of PString essentially is using an crippled AnsiString, 
without reference counting. I did not yet find any (obvious) bugs, but 
several flaws where ShortStrings are allocated, copied and disposed for 
no reason. See pmodules.try_consume_hintdirective.

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