[fpc-pascal] Where and Why is there a memory leak?

[Michael Schnell]

On 06.09.2017 18:03, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Quite likely. It did all sound awfully familiar. :-)
Is there even a thinkable solution ?

To me the offering of two incompatible kinds of interfaces (not 
regarding the external libraries but the language construct) seems 
rather odd, especially as the language construct is decently usable 
without attaching to an external library. In fact to me it's already off 
to create a language construct based on the dedicated makeup of some 
external library at all. It would be better to have an independent and 
usable language construct that just offers means to optionally attach to 
certain types of libraries.

OTOH, another related construct already discusses multiple times (and 
seemingly offered by Embarcadero) is ref counted "normal" objects. But 
those are known to introduce certain pitfalls, as well.

-Michael