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From: john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: memory leakages with Ada?
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:32:16 GMT
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On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:20:52 GMT, "Steve Doiel"
<nospam_steved94@attbi.com> wrote:

>  nbBytes := GetNbBytes( dataSource );
>  declare
>    dataBuffer : ByteBuffer( 1 .. nbBytes );
>  begin
>     GetData( dataBuffer );
>  end;
>
>Where in C the code would look something like:
>
>  nbBytes = GetNbBytes( dataSource );
>  dataPtr = (char *)calloc( nbBytes );
>  GetData( dataPtr );
>  free( dataPtr );

What's wrong with:

nbBytes = GetNbBytes (dataSource);
{
   char data[nbBytes];
   GetData(data);
}

?