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Article #2526Re: Memory Leak - TForm or TStringGrid or DynamicArray
From: Ed Mulroy
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:23
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:23
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FYI: When I said "little chance" it was about small programs such as a little utility I write to convert one file to another format, never to be used again. It was never meant to refer to anything which would get into production code, even as a temporary hack. . Ed > Alan Bellingham wrote in message > news:c9bps2hh072ogocfl3qhea00rf05tj5gpa@4ax.com... > > Ah, that wonderful phrase: 'little chance'. > > I was rung up by my manager this morning. A program had stopped working > at a client site, because a year ago, I appear to have typed '8' rather > than '28', and as a result, an expiry cut in 20 days early. (We were > going to provide the free updated version next week, in plenty of time > for the end of this month.) > > Little chance that I'd have done that. Little chance that the mistake > would have been missed by testing. Yet, the bug was there on the > customer site, and was here when I checked the relevant executable too. > > (Said code was a 'temporary hack', a couple of years ago, initially to > last for a month. Little chance it'd be required for much longer than > that. *cough*)
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X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,191a7d21d69bde32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "Ed Mulroy" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket> Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi References: <45c7810f@newsgroups.borland.com> <45c7dc8d$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <45c89ec6@newsgroups.borland.com> <45ca4546$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <0sqks2t4c90epuc62bv635h36cqeat0ujd@4ax.com> <45cb3451$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <ptems2p2k2rquqdiao805ik2fhg6jl9n9a@4ax.com> <45cbc696$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <0scos2d8fs92eis2eo0a7j91shnaaedbrd@4ax.com> <45cca5a5$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <c9bps2hh072ogocfl3qhea00rf05tj5gpa@4ax.com> Subject: Re: Memory Leak - TForm or TStringGrid or DynamicArray Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:23:33 -0500 Lines: 28 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.57.117.102 Message-ID: <45ccca28$1@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1171049000 66.57.117.102 (9 Feb 2007 11:23:20 -0800) X-Authenticated-User: edmulroy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!203.109.252.33.MISMATCH!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail