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Subject: Re: Why people wants to complicate code with
	Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation?
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 21:34 +0200, fabio de francesco wrote:
>  "If storage for allocated object
> is plentiful,...

> Does it mean that, for safety sake, programmers should not care about memory
> consumption? 

A program, run once an hour, to see how many new items have
been added to a database, report the number, and be done,
may well leave memory management to the system facilities IMHO.

That's safe, too, because I can't pass the wrong pointer
to an Unchecked_Deallocation.