[Lazarus] IUnknown and reference counting

[Sven Barth]

Am 21.03.2013 18:58 schrieb "Hans-Peter Diettrich" <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com>:
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> Sven Barth schrieb:
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>> Am 21.03.2013 11:24, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
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>>> 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.
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> 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 :-]

Why crippled?

Regards,
Sven
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