Is it memory safe to provide an object as a function result?

Question

Here I provide simple piece of code.

function GetStringList:TStringList;
var i:integer;
begin
   Result:=TStringList.Create;
   Result.Add(\'Adam\');
   Res         


        

Answer 1

Memory safety is a stricter variant of type safety. For memory safety, you typically need a precise garbage collector and a type system which prevents certain kinds of typecasts and pointer arithmetic. By this metric, Delphi is not memory safe, whether you write functions returning objects or not.