delphi string leak

Question

I\'m working with Delphi XE, and writing an application that is using RemObjects SDK to communicate (in case that may be relevant). I have FastMM debug on, and sometimes (no

Answer 1

You can leak strings by freeing records on the heap using FreeMem instead of Dispose or if you overwrite a record using System.Move or FillChar. In the first case the finalization code isn't run and in the second if the string field was filled with a nil it will think it's already cleared it.

If you want to find the location for the leak download FastMM and turn on FullDebugMode. It will include a stack trace of where the leak occurred.