[fpc-devel] Why/how does the compiler have a non-trivial number ofmemory leaks after over two decades of development?

[Marcos Douglas B. Santos]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel <
fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> J. Gareth Moreton <gareth at moreton-family.com> schrieb am Mo., 30. Juli
> 2018, 13:31:
>
>> I've noticed that the compiler doesn't use
>> try...finally blocks to help with freeing
>> blocks. I'm not sure why this is the case,
>> but might be speed related.
>>
>
> Correct. Even implicit try-finally frame generation is disabled for the
> compiler source.
>

Is performance more important than being correct?  :|

regards,
Marcos Douglas
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