[Lazarus] Is this a bug?

[Wolf]

Now that I learned the word "initialization section", I could google for 
it, and what's going on behind the screens is no longer murky. Thanks 
again. I even found the heaptrc documentation 
<https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/heaptrc/index.html> and in it 
the "dumpheap" procedure, which means I can follow heap usage throughout 
my program, without any interference from "halt".
--Problem solved--.
wolf

On 18/06/17 10:07, Joost van der Sluis via Lazarus wrote:
> Op 16-06-17 om 22:58 schreef Wolf via Lazarus:
>> now I understand the real bug is in my assumptions on what goes on 
>> behind the screens. But that leads to another question: is there any 
>> documentation where I can read up on this so that I may improve on my 
>> programming, and particular debugging, skills?
>
> Well, it's not that this behavior is hidden. It's even documented: 
> https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refch17.html.
> So you could read the pure documentation....
>
> There's also a wiki about this issue: 
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/Avoiding_implicit_try_finally_section
>
> But I doubt that this is what you meant.
>
> You asked this on the Lazarus-list, but this is more a question for 
> the fpc-pascal list. What you could do is follow this list, or maybe 
> even fpc-devel. You can also browse the archives.
>
> You can learn a lot from there.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joost.
>
>