Re: D7 Compiler Bug

From: Rob Kennedy (me3_at_privacy.net)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:36:20 -0500

Jamie wrote:
> not if your dealing with Records.

He's not dealing with records. He's dealing with old-style objects.

> you really should be using shortstrings
> for those events when you move data out to
> memory or file in a while record.

No one said anything about moving anything anywhere. And what's a while
record?

> i use short strings when ever possible for
> speed

You obviously don't use Delphi 5 or later.

> and less dynamic heap fragmentation.
> one's app could get a periodic memory
> error if using lots of dynamic strings that
> are getting reallocated all the time .
> even though over all memory will report
> being sufficient.
> so it maybe a good thing to keep in mind.

OK, let's forget about strings. In Dodi's original example, change the
object's string field to be a dynamic array, an interface reference, a
WideString, or a Variant, and then change the assertion test
accordingly. The assertion will fail. The problem is not limited to strings. 

-- 
Rob

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