[fpc-pascal] Why does nested function get corrupted?

[Sven Barth]

Hairy Pixels <genericptr at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 10. Sep. 2022, 03:21:

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> > On Sep 9, 2022, at 4:48 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
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> > How about you simply report such corruptions as bugs? I can always close
> them as "not a bug" or duplicate if necessary.
> >
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> Well I thought the data may have been saved on the stack and thus lost
> when the function exits. What is the expected behavior for passing these
> outside of the calling scope?
>

Looking at your example again - I'm only on my phone currently - it's
indeed your fault because the state passed to a nested function variable
does *not* survive the stack frame it belongs to. That's where function
references shine, because there the state *does* survive.

Regards,
Sven

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