[fpc-devel] Managed Types, Undefined Bhaviour

[Martok]

Am 29.06.2018 um 14:41 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
> As far as I can see, you get 2 chain and 1 done call. Which is what I'd expect.
> The overrides of the _* calls are useless, since they are not virtual in
> TInterfacedObject and hence never called. So that's OK too.
Interface functions are always virtual and implemented by the actually
instantiated class. The "override" keyword is neither allowed nor needed, this
code does what it looks like.

The expected output would be 3 Addrefs and 3 Releases.
A bit better would be doing the last release after "Done" and before "fin" (but
this is difficult because of the implied exception frame - there are cases where
Delphi does it anyway, depending on method length).
The "ideal" output would get away with even less (but I don't think this is
possible without translating to SSA form first and doing some strict counting).

The observed output is 6 Addrefs and 6 Releases. At some point in the past (this
may have to do with variable and register allocation), a Release could happen
too soon. It doesn't now, so that's good.

There is nothing technically wrong with the generated code, but it is not nearly
as efficient as it could be. See also Ryan's comments about slow
Interlocked*-calls a few weeks ago. Delphi's output for the same example is
better, giving the expected output.
Because of the tempvars, it is also not exactly what one might expect at first,
which is why I mentioned it in this context.

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Regards,
Martok