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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: Type safety on wikipedia
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:19:15 +0100
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Martin Krischik wrote:

> But then Ada is supposed to me GC - only the vendors are to lazy to add an
> collector.

This is something I've mused about sometimes: Let's suppose some Ada 
compiler goes ahead and provides a GC. What happens with programs 
written without taking this into account?

AFAIK, there's pragma Controlled (ARM 13.11.3) which /prevents/ 
collection (this is already curious, since it suggest to me that GC 
tends to be implemented by default). I have never used it, so, are all 
my types using unchecked deallocation potentially problematic? Would a 
compiler implementing GC suddenly start to give errors when 
instantiating UD for types without this pragma?

And what a curious name election? Talking about controlled types can 
refer to Finalization or to access types with this pragma applied.

Just curious.