[fpc-devel] Managed Types, Undefined Bhaviour

[Martok]

Am 29.06.2018 um 12:43 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
> Out of curiosity, can you give a simple example of such a funny behaviour
> in such a chaining pattern ?
We've had this topic about 2 years ago with regard to automatic file close on
interface release. Interestingly, something must have changed in the mean time,
because the trivial testcase is now *different* , which is somewhat the point of
being weird-undefined ;-)

Take this example: https://pastebin.com/gsdVXWAi

The tempvar used to get reused, causing lifetime issues with the "chain object".
This isn't the case anymore, now three independent tempvars are used, all of
which live until the end of the function, potentially keeping the object alive
for a long time.
There is also one fpc_intf_assign with associated addref/release per as
operator, which isn't technically necessary.

One could probably avoid the interfaces here with ARC records, but either I'm
missing something or the scope lifetime of tempvars there is even worse.

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Regards,
Martok