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From: falis@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Edward Falis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: C Strings in Ada?
Summary: RE: memory reclamation
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Date: 13 Jun 90 21:20:15 GMT
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you're right: it depends on the compiler and rte implementation. In fairness,
though, several of the more prominent Ada vendors do perform automatic
reclamation (though not garbage collection).  The typical scheme is
to deallocate all objects of the collection type when the access type
goes out of scope.  For compiler-generated temporaries, reclamation 
will occur when the scope creating the tempo is exited, or when the
tempo is no longer required, depending on the thoroughness of the
implementation.  - Ed Falis, Alsys