Re: Garbage Collection ???

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:27:23 +0200, ldries46 wrote:

> I have been trying to find the place where a faulty pointer could have been 
> introduced and I come to the conclusion that the return of a procedure in 
> the place.

Note that pointers are most likely passed by value. This means that the way
you are debugging it does not make much sense. Furthermore, dangling
pointers usually manifest themselves after corrupting the program state
beyond any recognition. Thus the observed effect is a consequence of a bug
many source lines and executed instructions away.

You may try to use the GNAT Debug Pool to locate the problem:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_ugn_unw/The-GNAT-Debug-Pool-Facility.html

Or you may trace all allocations, deallocations, dereferences of the
pointer type. Put the trace into a DB or Excel, sort it by the address key
in order to determine the first place where some pointer gets dangled.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de