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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory leak - What the ...?
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:56:07 +0100
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Martin Krischik wrote:
> Marius Amado Alves wrote:
>
>>>     if This.Data /= null then
>>>          This.Data := new Stream_Element_Array'(This.Data.all);
>>>       end if;
>>
>> To my pointerless eyes this looks very leaky.
>
> Why? It look OK to me. Of course one would expect This.Data to be
> initialised in Initialize so that This.Data is allways /= null...

This code says:
"If this pointer contains anything (not null) then make it point to
something new /without/ dealing with the original".

But it is still early... ;-)