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

[Sven Barth]

Am 30.07.2018 um 19:49 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton:
> The trouble is, these allocation failures are designed for C programs, 
> where "malloc" returns NULL if memory isn't allocated.  Free Pascal's 
> GetMem raises an exception instead. Granted, it shouldn't be too much 
> of a struggle to implement a custom memory manager for testing and to 
> cause random (or deterministic) allocation failures to see how cleanly 
> the situation is handled.  It could be a fun test suite!
The default heap of FPC's RTL respects the value of 
ReturnNilIfGrowHeapFails (which by default is False).

Regards,
Sven
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