[Lazarus] IUnknown and reference counting

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Thu Mar 21 18:46:13 CET 2013


Sven Barth schrieb:
> Am 21.03.2013 11:24, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
>> In an Delphi-compatible implementation *all* classes implementing 
>> interfaces *must* be reference counted, so omitting this will result 
>> in incompatible code.
> So what? There are enough people on these lists that don't care whether 
> their code is Delphi compatible or not.

There are also enough people who consider to use FPC instead of Delphi, 
but cannot due to such incompatibilities.

Thanks for giving me insight into the crippled implementation of 
interfaces in FPC :-]

DoDi





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