From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fb264cdd67c2f20f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Possible memory leaks when reading/writing variant records References: <05lkrrojfd.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> From: M E Leypold Date: 23 Jun 2006 13:12:06 +0200 Message-ID: <2vr71gjfcp.fsf_-_@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.221.30 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1151060769 88.72.221.30 (23 Jun 2006 13:06:09 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4952 Date: 2006-06-23T13:12:06+02:00 List-Id: Dear All, For the record and not to let that get in lost in the longer post: The ideas I've got about the source of the problem with reading and writing variant record with finalizers leads me to the hypothesis that reading and writing variant records with Unbounded_String fields in it, might lead to memory leaks. (In GNAT 3.15p). More generally it would lead to resources not properly freed or finalized especially in case where one doesn't get Storage_Error(s) or Constraint_Error(s) because invalid representations are being finalized. See my recent post(s) about that problem. Regards -- Markus