[fpc-pascal] $IMPLICITEXCEPTIONS vs early function return

Hairy Pixels genericptr at gmail.com
Sat Jul 15 16:53:59 CEST 2023



> On Jul 15, 2023, at 7:18 AM, Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
> It also sets up an exception frame. FPC uses setjmp/longjmp for that, which means that while restoring everything when an exception happens is fast, saving the exception frame itself is relatively slow.

Ok so just to confirm does disabling   $IMPLICITEXCEPTIONS leak memory with ref counted types if a function exists early? For example:

===========================

{$implicitexceptions off}

procedure MyProcedure;
var
  s: AnsiString;
begin
  s := '1234';
  exit;
  // leaking??
end;

Regards,
Ryan Joseph



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