[fpc-devel] RIP NoGlobals

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org>:

> Am 30.09.2010 14:15, schrieb Mattias Gärtner:
>> Zitat von Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>:
>>
>>>
>>> On 30 Sep 2010, at 13:32, Mattias Gärtner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ehm, are you saying, that the compiler must be restarted when there
>>>> were errors, because it does not clean up properly?
>>>
>>> As far as allocated memory is concerned: yes. It does free a bunch of
>>> stuff when an error occurs, but not everything, and what is not freed
>>> depends on the error.
>>
>> Ok. Thanks.
>> And I guess there are currently no plans to fix this, right?
>
> No. But I don't consider it that bad: most of the memory is released
> even in case of an error. The overlefts shouldn't add up that much.

When it is used for quick syntax check the compiler is invoked several  
times a minute - several thousand times a day. Is that a problem?


Mattias