Re: Memory management clarification

[Adrien Plisson <aplisson-news@stochastique.net>]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> Trying to learn a bit of Ada I came across a statement that memory 
> allocated from the pool will be implicitly reclaimed when the acces 
> variable used to reference it goes out of scope.

this is called garbage collection. can you tell us where you read this 
statement ?

if i remember right, garbage collection is _allowed_ by the standard, 
but not _defined_ in the same standard.

the only 2 compilers i can think of implementing a GC are JGNAT and 
MGNAT, 2 niche compilers targeting the JVM and CLI, mainly because the 
GC is a feature of their target platform. i'm not aware of any other 
implementation of a garbage collector, but i may be wrong...

-- 
rien