Re: [Firebird-devel] Reference counters in API - was Re: Providers, yvalve, external engines and object lifecycle

[Adriano d. S. F. <adr...@gm...>]

On 30-03-2011 08:04, Vlad Khorsun wrote:
> 
>     With Delphi you will just use IAttachment, without SmartPtr, as Delphi's "interface" have
> built-in compiler magic to work with reference counts.
> 
AFAIK, this is not how it works.

Delphi "interface" has nothing directly related with refcount.

Refcount comes on when IInterface is used, but IInterface is about COM
(has queryInterface). I don't think you can make our interfaces to work
with IInterface, so you won't get RAII with Delphi and our interfaces.


Adriano