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,cb73ffe253a5caf1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!skynet.be!newspost001!tjb!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:38:12 +0200 From: Adrien Plisson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, fr-be, fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Memory management clarification References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <42e611e5$0$12049$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Organization: -= Belgacom Usenet Service =- NNTP-Posting-Host: ccf7718e.news.skynet.be X-Trace: 1122374117 news.skynet.be 12049 81.246.235.84:4240 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@skynet.be Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3783 Date: 2005-07-26T12:38:12+02:00 List-Id: 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