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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Freeing Pointers to classwide types
Date: 1998/10/01
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In article <3613a5b1.186262@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>,
  tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote:
>   Let me rephrase the question: If an access type goes out of scope,
> so the things it pointed to become inaccessible, is there any portable
> way to prevent an eventual Storage_Error from multiple calls of the
> block, without using Unchecked_Deallocation?

I suppose you could use custom storage pools to create you own heap using
arrays. I'm a little unclear as to why that would be better than
Unchecked_Deallocation, though.

I you are aksing if there is a portable way to deallocate memory without
dealloacting the memory, I'm afraid the answer is no.


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T.E.D.

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