[fpc-pascal] Reference Counting

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Mon Apr 5 12:36:48 CEST 2010


On 05/04/2010, cobines <cobines at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>
>  > I'm not sure that is correct. Once you free Test, Pest still points to
>  > the same non existing object and you can use assigned to check it,
>
>
> Pest would be a dangling pointer and should not be accessed.

Correct, and that was what I was trying to get across. Accessing it
after Test was freed will cause Access Violations, so setting it to
nil is the correct thing to do.


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