[fpc-pascal] Newbie problems with memory leak and access violation/AV

[Jim]

On 30-3-2010 9:28, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> After allocating an object which you will free in the same routine,
> you should ALWAYS put a try..finally statement, and free the object in
> the
> finally clause: 
++ makes sense.
> After that, the error still happens, but at least there is no memory
> leak.
>
> The error is the following:
>
>    FreeAndNil(Item); //Don't really now if we should do this but it
> can't hurt. Can it?
>
> It CAN hurt: TSearchRec is a record, you don't need to free it.
++Ok, clear.
>
> Michael.

Michael,

Thanks for the quick & clear explanation! I'll give it a go and get back
to the list if (when ;) I've got more problems...

jb