[fpc-pascal] $IMPLICITEXCEPTIONS vs early function return

[Jonas Maebe]

On 15/07/2023 16:53, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
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>> On Jul 15, 2023, at 7:18 AM, Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Ok so just to confirm does disabling   $IMPLICITEXCEPTIONS leak memory with ref counted types if a function exists early?

No, local variables are still finalised on exiting the function. Only 
when an exception happens, the the exit code that contains this 
finalisation won't execute


Jonas