Re: FreePascal - FindFirst and I/O Handles Used

On 2007-05-05, Jim Bishop <bishopjp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Wow... thanks for pointing out the FindClose.  Works great!
>
> I'd never have found that on my own.  I wonder how many other TP->FPC 
> gotcha's I don't know about.  (Is that an unknown unknown or a known 
> unknown? to quote a famous ex US cabinet member).

While I'm not so familiar with US cabinet members, I can quickly think of
one other issue:

FPC dynamically allocates memory from the OS. This makes it dangerous to
   rely on memavail and friends, for more than indicative purposes.  The
   clearest reason for this is that the amount of free memory might change
   between check for memory and the actual allocation.

Going through c.l.p.b and c.l.p.m archives might yield some more points.

What OS target do you use? While FPC abstracts the OS and CPU reasonably
well, it is not perfect in more remote cases where the abstraction would
need to change into an emulation.