[fpc-pascal] TIniFile crash/memory loss

[Bart]

This however means that the programmer has to protect TIniFile.Free
with a Try..Except block, which is also rather unusual.

Bart

On 3/31/11, José Mejuto <joshyfun at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello FPC-Pascal,
>
> Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5:05:35 PM, you wrote:
>
>>> Should I report this behaviour as a bug, or is it considered "by design"?
>>> (My old Delphi does not support the CacheUpdates property, so I cannot
>>> test how it behaves in Delphi)
> mvwb> Please report it as a bug. Your fix proposal is good.
>
> I think the fix is not good, eat an exception is not good at all, so I
> think better:
>
> destructor TIniFile.destroy;
> begin
>   try
>     If FDirty and FCacheUpdates then
>     begin
>       UpdateFile;
>     end;
>   finally
>     inherited destroy;
>   end;
> end;
>
> Silently not updating the file seems to be a no-no.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  José
>
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