[fpc-pascal] Does FPC support garbage collection like Delphi for .NET?

[Florian Klaempfl]

Song Zhiwei wrote:
> There are class TTestA and TTestB:
> 
> type
>   TTestB = class end;
>   TTestA = class
>     B: TTestB;
>     constructor Create(BParam: TTestB);
>   end;
> 
> constructor TTestA.Create(BParam: TTestB);
> begin
>   B:= BParam;
>  end;
> 
> var
>   A: TTestA;
> begin
>   A:= TTestA.Create(TTestB.Create);
>   A:= nil; // Now, the instances of TTestA and TTestB created in
>            // above line can be freed automatically?
> end.
> 
> As I known, Delphi for .NET does support garbage collection.
> And the above instances can be freed automatically?
> How about FPC? 

No. We don't think that GC fits into the paradigma of pascal because it enables
sloppy and bad programming style.