Re: newbie: can't read fast enough... :-) memory leaks...

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Le mercredi 03 septembre 2014 à 02:38 -0700, gdotone@gmail.com a
écrit : 
> i know i'll get there, currently in chapter 3, of Ada 95 PSPD, anyway, can Ada code have/produce memory leaks?  well, maybe not "can" it but, does Ada, natively prevent memory leaks?
> 
> like, C seems to leak all over the place, if not managed correctly by the programmer.

This depends on the implementation. Ada make it possible to use a
garbage collector but as far as I know no implementation is using one.
So yes, every Ada compiler around will leak memory if not properly
freed.

To free an allocated object one need to instantiate
Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation.

Note that well designed object can deallocate themselves when possible
by using Ada.Finalization API. As an example, Unbounded_String are using
dynamic allocation but you need need to worry about that as a user.

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