[fpc-pascal] Is this a reference counting bug?

[Bihar Anwar]

On May 2, 2010 4:24:37 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:


> The reference counting logic is considered to be an opaque implementation detail (whose implementation can change at any time). It is undocumented by design.

In fact, it was already documented in detail in FPC Language Reference Guide: 3.2.4 Ansistrings; 3.3.1 Arrays: Dynamic Array; 7.6 Reference counting.

Moreover, I've seen many Delphi code snippets out there (e.g. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~rkennedy/array-delete) rely on reference counting behaviour.