[fpc-pascal] ppcjvm issues

[Sven Barth]

Am 11.01.2017 08:54 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <mschnell at lumino.de>:
>
> On 10.01.2017 05:13, Jon Foster wrote:
>>
>> On 01/07/2017 10:39 AM, leledumbo wrote:
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>> So that leaves me with the question: What about destructors? Must I call
free/destroy on all objects I create, or do they self-destruct? If so
destroy or free?
>
>
> AFAIU, in fpc destroying any objects is mandatory. And this close to
always needs to be done with "Free" (which inside the class finally calls
Destroy).
>
> If destroying an object is not necessary, the class should provide a
dummy Free procedure. So the application programmer always can/should use
Free.

We're talking about JVM here where garbage collections *must* be used. So
FPC does as well for that target.

Regards,
Sven
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