Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!spraggej
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Sunday, 30 Jun 1991 16:20:00 EDT
From: John G. Spragge <SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Message-ID: <91181.162000SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: DISPOSE'ing
References:  <1144.286c2900@vger.nsu.edu>

[ about disposing of two pointers that refer to the same object ]

a) what version of Turbo are you using? What you describe certainly won't
   work on any recent versions of Turbo Pascal.

b) How sure are you what the code is really doing? You may be "disposing"
the wrong variable; you may even be messing up random memory. Even if the
system accepts the double dispose, I suggest it's a very dangerous thing
to do.



disclaimer: Queen's University supplies me with computer services, not
            my opinions.

John G. Spragge