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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Freeing Pointers to classwide types
Date: 1998/09/26
Date: 1998-09-26T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6uifpt$e98$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 360c4a70.29707515@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net

In article <360c4a70.29707515@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>,
  tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote:

<<code snipped>>


>      Do you mean that it would be legal Ada to produce a different
> output, or that it should produce this  but might not actually free
> the memory after the Finalize?


Absolutely, of course the finalize and initialize routines have to be
called as prescribed by the RM. But there is absolutely no suggestion
that some magic free operation would take place in your code. It *might*,
but then you could equally well say there *might* be complete automatic
garbage collection of either a conservative or full-tracing kind. Such
storage allocation schemes are *allowed* in Ada, but most certainly not
*required*.

In your code, the normal coding would be to do a free operation in the
finalization routine. In fact 99% of finalization routines do nothing
but explicit memory freeing in code that I have seen.

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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-24  0:00 Freeing Pointers to classwide types joecool
1998-09-25  0:00 ` alan walkington
1998-09-25  0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-25  0:00   ` Bob Fletcher
1998-09-25  0:00     ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-09-25  0:00     ` dennison
1998-10-09  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-12  0:00       ` Mats Weber
1998-10-12  0:00         ` Pat Rogers
1998-09-25  0:00   ` dewarr
1998-09-25  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1998-09-25  0:00       ` dewarr
1998-09-26  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1998-09-26  0:00       ` dewarr [this message]
1998-09-26  0:00         ` Tom Moran
1998-09-27  0:00           ` dewarr
1998-09-27  0:00             ` Tom Moran
1998-09-28  0:00               ` dewarr
1998-09-28  0:00                 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-28  0:00                   ` dewarr
1998-09-28  0:00                     ` Tom Moran
1998-09-28  0:00                       ` Tom Moran
1998-09-28  0:00                         ` Brian Rogoff
1998-09-28  0:00                       ` Pat Rogers
1998-09-28  0:00                         ` Tom Moran
1998-09-28  0:00                           ` Pat Rogers
1998-09-29  0:00                           ` dewarr
1998-09-29  0:00                             ` Tom Moran
1998-09-30  0:00                               ` Tom Moran
1998-10-01  0:00                                 ` dewar
1998-10-01  0:00                                   ` Tom Moran
1998-10-01  0:00                                     ` dewarr
1998-10-01  0:00                                       ` Tom Moran
1998-10-01  0:00                                     ` dewarr
1998-10-01  0:00                                     ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-10-01  0:00                                       ` Tom Moran
1998-10-01  0:00                                         ` dennison
1998-10-01  0:00                                         ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-01  0:00                                           ` Tom Moran
1998-10-02  0:00                                           ` dewarr
1998-10-02  0:00                                             ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-02  0:00                                               ` dewarr
1998-10-02  0:00                                           ` dennison
1998-10-02  0:00                                             ` dewarr
1998-10-02  0:00                                         ` dewarr
1998-10-09  0:00                                           ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-09  0:00                                             ` dennison
1998-10-09  0:00                                               ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-28  0:00                   ` dewarr
1998-09-28  0:00                     ` Richard D Riehle
1998-09-28  0:00                       ` Pat Rogers
1998-09-29  0:00                       ` dewarr
1998-10-09  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-09  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-26  0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-10-09  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-09  0:00   ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-10  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-11  0:00       ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-11  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
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1998-09-25  0:00 bpr5549
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