[fpc-pascal] Interfaces in FPC

[Rodrigo Palhano]

That's really cool, i am starting to love fpc... :)

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:37:18 -0300, Michael Van Canneyt  
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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>> On 9 mrt 2006, at 19:58, Rodrigo Palhano wrote:
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>> > On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:53:34 -0300, Jonas Maebe
>> > <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:
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>> >> On 9 mrt 2006, at 19:34, Rodrigo Palhano wrote:
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>> >>> Are interfaces in FPC reference counted like in Delphi ?
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>> >> Yes.
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>> > Why is that ?
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>> Because Delphi also does it and because we are Delphi-compatible? I
>> don't know.
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> Only interfaces which descend from IUnknown (IInterface) are
> reference counted. Corba interfaces do not descend from
> IInterface and are therefore not reference counted.
>
> There is a command-line switch and a compile-directive to
> determine whether the interfaces are COM style or CORBA style
> (don't remember exactly which, see programmers guide for
> the directive and user's guide for the command-line switch)
>
> Michael.
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