[Lazarus] Difference between FreeThenNil and FreeAndNil

[Alexander Klenin]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 21:53,  <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> wrote:
>> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=16035
>
> But what does this have to do with the problem you mention in FreeAndNil ?
>
> It's rebuilding a component tree, while part of the tree is still being
> destroyed. That this will go wrong seems logical to me, but irrelevant to
> FreeAndNil.

As you can see from the linked discussion,
currently implemented workaround involves FreeAndNil.
I can imagine a similar bug which might require FreeThenNil instead.

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Alexander S. Klenin