Re: Why people wants to complicate code with Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation?

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

fabio:
[...]
> Does it mean that, for safety sake, programmers should not care about memory
> consumption?
>
> I am not sure I can agree with that. I've been tought that any "malloc"
> and "new" must be followed by "free" and "delete".
>
> What do you think about this issue?

I'm rather of your opinion.
If you start leaving memory leaks all around units it can become very
annoying as the projects grow and age.
You cannot predict if the target system will be plentiful enough to
absorb possible leaks or how long or on which input data size the
program will run.
It can happen that the pollution size at time t is a power of t times a
power of input data units or something like that...

IMHO it's a fully cultural problem.
Some people have tendency to say "just buy more storage, it's cheap",
other prefer to keep control of the rubbish...

Gautier
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