[fpc-pascal] New Feature: 'Management Operators'

[Lars]

On Tue, November 8, 2016 1:47 am, Maciej Izak wrote:
> 2016-11-07 22:24 GMT+01:00 African Wild Dog <paintedlycaon at gmail.com>:
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>> I saw on the bug tracker a patch submission by Maciej Izak about the
>> feature "Management Operators".
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>> This feature is related to Automatic Reference Counting?
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> Yes. We have a working ARC objects

Can someone briefly explain what this means for code?

Is this related to garbage collected heap allocated objects and similar,
without using a garbage collector but using reference counting?

Sorry if I am way off base, I just have no idea what it is...