Missing inherited Destroy

Object Pascal — Delphi & Free Pascal

Error

Reliability

Missing `inherited Destroy` can leak resources and corrupt cleanup

missing `inherited Destroy` can leak resources and corrupt cleanup.

Why this severity

missing `inherited Destroy` can leak resources and corrupt cleanup.

Known false positives

uncommon custom destruction chains that call inherited indirectly.

Remediation example

destructor TMyType.Destroy;
begin
  FreeAndNil(FBuffer);
  inherited Destroy;
end;

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