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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC?
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On 19 Maj, 06:12, Matthew Heaney <mhea...@on2.com> wrote:

> Right, and Ada gives you the tools to right exception-safe
> abstractions, that don't leak memory (or any other resource).  It's
> really no different from C++.

I've found two differences:
1. No support for exception-safe assignment in Ada.
2. Memory leak after exception is raised while initializing the
allocated object in Ada.

Apart from these two I find Ada and C++ approaches very similar (and
appropriate).

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Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com