From: Robb.Nebbe@di.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe)
Subject: Re: Does memory leak?
Date: 1995/03/30
Date: 1995-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1995Mar30.110137@di.epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: milodD67p8t.5xK@netcom.com
In article <milodD67p8t.5xK@netcom.com>, milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo) writes:
|> Theodore Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> writes:
|>
|> >I mean, if you don't deallocate what you allocate, your program will
|> >leak memory no matter what language it is written in. This isn't an Ada
|> >issue, it's an issue of sloppy coding.
|>
|> Huh? Haven't you ever worked with a garbage-collected language?
|> Languages like Smalltalk allow you to allocate stuff all day,
|> and they don't even have a deallocate operation; the run-time
|> system figures out when the program is done with a piece of storage
|> and deallocates it for you.
|>
Garbage collection doesn't change the fact that someone has to
deallocate the memory it just changes who is responsible. In
general it really isn't an issue of sloppy code; however, if
the programmer is responsible then it is an issue of sloppy
code.
Robb Nebbe
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-22 9:06 Does memory leak? Duncan Sands
1995-03-22 12:04 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-23 0:37 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-23 13:54 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1995-03-23 16:23 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-24 21:08 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-03-28 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-31 0:00 ` Kent Mitchell
1995-03-23 2:08 ` T. Owen O'Malley
1995-03-24 11:44 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-27 14:01 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-29 0:00 ` John DiCamillo
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Robb Nebbe [this message]
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1995-04-04 0:00 ` John Baker
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Sverre Brubaek
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Ray Toal
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-23 22:38 ` Tucker Taft
1995-03-24 1:57 ` Henry Baker
1995-03-24 17:30 ` Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software
1995-03-26 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1995-03-27 15:19 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-03-27 14:35 ` Kennel
1995-03-24 12:29 ` Mike Meier
1995-03-24 10:46 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-24 15:44 ` David Weller
1995-03-25 1:55 ` kkrieser
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1995-03-27 9:36 Duncan Sands
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