Re: memory leakages with Ada?

[anh_vo@udlp.com (Anh_Vo)]

For Ada95 I have developped a simple utility package to detect memory
leaks. Most of all, it can pinpoint where the leaks occur. Thus,
memory leaks can be fixed. The source code is available on
www.adapower.com/lang/mempool2.html. In addition, I do have the latest
version. I can email to you if requested. By the way, GNAT-3.14p has
package called GNAT.Debug_Pools. It can be used to detect memory leaks
also.

Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<pWLUJHzQF0ha@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> In article <3c90af1e@news.starhub.net.sg>, "Calvin Ow" <calvow@cyberway.com.sg> writes:
> 
> > Has Ada got any memory leakage problems like that of C?
> 
> Ada95 has several additional capabilites to guard against memory leaks.
> It is possible to bypass most checks in Ada, so one could encounter
> just as much trouble in Ada if one attempted to transliterate a C
> program into Ada while retaining every aspect of the C design.
> 
> > Especially with the use of Pragma calls to C?
> 
> If you call from Ada to C, the portion that is written in C is
> fully empowered to leak all the memory it wants :-)  Thus the
> question of memory leaks when doing that boils down to an
> issue of whether the C code is well written.