[Lazarus] IUnknown and reference counting

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On 2013-03-21 07:07, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>> Does this mean that CORBA interfaces are not reference counted at all,
> 
> Correct. And as Martin said, the name "CORBA" is a bit misleading. FPC
> has no CORBA or ORB implementation, so no distributed communications can
> be done out of the box. The interfaces in that mode [CORBA style], I
> guess, is just _similar_ to real CORBA apps. The easiest way to explain
> it is that CORBA style interfaces are just like COM style interfaces,
> but without reference counting, and no IUnknown methods.

I'm not sure whether I understand what you did and want to achieve.

In an Delphi-compatible implementation *all* classes implementing 
interfaces *must* be reference counted, so omitting this will result in 
incompatible code.

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