Freeing a TList

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If there is any possibility of the freeing code being called re-entrantly, make sure to store a nil in the list before freeing the object; your code should look like this:

	// original from Ray Lischner for i := 0 to List.Count-1 do begin TempNode := List[i]; List[i] := nil; TempNode.Free; end; List.Free;

Otherwise, the list would contain an invalid pointer. Even if you are not using multi-threading, Delphi has a few places where it is re-entrant.

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2005-11-25, 01:11:39

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