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Subject: Re: memory leakages with Ada?
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Kevin Cline wrote:
> No problem in C++ though:
>     nbBytes = GetNbBytes( dataSource );
>     std::vector<char> data(nbBytes);
>     GetData( data );

But this is identical in spirit to the C version,
in that memory will be allocated from the heap
instead of the stack. The Ada version requires
no deallocation or destruction other than that
afforded by exiting the scope of the object.