New GPC beta: gpc-971001_(re)

Wed, 8 Oct 1997 23:57:23 +0200 (MEST)

According to Maurice Lombardi:
> 
> There is another error in this initialization part (which presumably has
> nothing to do with the crash of the compiler).
> The variable ppJunk is New'ed, used to fill CmdLine, which is a pointer
> of pChar type, Then Dispose'd. So the memory to which CmdLine points is
> reputted into the heap, and can be overwrited by subsequent instructions
> in the main program.

This is an error in `system.pas', not in GPC, so I can relax.  :-)

(* But it's easy to fix:  Just remove the line `Dispose ( ppJunk )'. *)

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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