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Although setting TImage::Picture = NULL won't cause a memory leak, what alternatives exist that might avoid that confusion?

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Pete

Despite bummi's fine explanation of why Image1.Picture := nil won't cause a memory leak, I'm concerned that it may raise red-flags in the minds of new people reading my code, since its safety is counter-intuitive. Therefore, I'd like to avoid it. What more-intuitive alternatives exist? Although bummi's answer was for Delphi, I'm actually more interested in C++Builder.

Pete

Encapsulating the property assignment provides two advantages:

  1. a single location to document the non-leakiness of it (DRY)
  2. a less worrisome-looking interface to use everywhere else

e.g.:

// Not a memory leak: see http://stackoverflow.com/a/23999207/782738
#define ClearImage(Image) Image->Picture = NULL

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