> On Oct 6, 2022, at 12:45 PM, Sven Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Am 05.10.2022 um 14:16 schrieb Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal:
>> Is it possible to assign a class to a variant? I tried and get a crash. If
>> not, why not? It’s just a pointer so I would expect it to work.
>
> There is no field that would hold a class reference and no type value that
> would differentiate it, thus the code handling variants would not be able to
> finalize (aka free) a class correctly. You can of course always use a custom
> type and handle that yourself. *shrugs*
Oh so the problem is variant thinks it should try to manage memory for you? I
tried doing:
v: variant;
begin
v := GetMem(100);
And that crashed also. I thought it would be ok to just hold the reference but
not claim ownership over it.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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