Is it safe to assume that manually allocating a cleared memory block (e.g. with calloc rather than New) sufficiently initializes the ansistrings and dynamic arrays in that memory block ? If not, what does the init code look like that New is calling/setting up for ansistrings and dynamic arrays ?

Regards,

Adriaan van Os

In practice, that is currently enough.

In theory, you should call "initialize" for every record/array containing management types in your allocated block to be safe.

Jonas

And in practice, you also have to call "finalize" again for every record/array containing managed types (and for every separate managed type too, I forgot to mention this earlier although I hope that was implicitly clear) in that allocated block before freeing it again (to prevent memory leaks).

Jonas

Thanks for your reply. I feel comfortable calling "initialize" and "finalize" for every managed type in the memory block that I allocate/deallocate manually. However, can you elaborate why "initialize" and "finalize" must be called for the containing record/array too ? If my understanding of your reply is correct ?

Regards,

Adriaan van Os

If you call it for an array/record containing managed types, then then compiler/rtl will initialise all managed fields/elements within that array/record. Calling it for individual elements is only required if they're not contained in a record/array.

Jonas