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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
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Subject: Re: newbie: can't read fast enough... :-)    memory leaks...
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 12:17:44 +0200
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Le mercredi 03 septembre 2014 =C3=A0 02:38 -0700, gdotone@gmail.com a
=C3=A9crit :=20
> i know i'll get there, currently in chapter 3, of Ada 95 PSPD, anyway, ca=
n Ada code have/produce memory leaks?  well, maybe not "can" it but, does A=
da, natively prevent memory leaks?
>=20
> 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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