[fpc-pascal] dynamic array and new/dispose

[Jonas Maebe]

On 02 Feb 2011, at 09:20, Amit Bueno wrote:

> // creating and reading more data
> SubChunks[NewSubChunk]^.read(Fl);
>
> // NewSubChunk function
> Function Chunk.NewSubchunk: integer;
> begin
>   setlength(SubChunks, High(SubChunks)+2);
>   New(subchunks[High(SubChunks)], create);
>   SubChunks[High(SubChunks)]^.Data := Self.Data;
>   Result := High(SubChunks);
> end;
>
> // ---------
> The procedure fails when running the:
> SubChunks[NewSubChunk]^.read(Fl);
>
> All the procedure works fine on Delphi, but on fpc under iMac it  
> fails.
> Why?
>

Are you compiling in Delphi mode? Please *always* post compilable  
source code that demonstrates the problem when asking for help, not  
uncompilable snippets. Don't make people guess about what you might  
have written or about how you are compiling it.


Jonas