From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: How do I get this to work??
Date: 1999/01/18
Date: 1999-01-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77vp5p$ui9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 77vi4q$o7l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <77vi4q$o7l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <sYyo2.8309$Kg6.62453@news2.telusplanet.net>,
> warwicks@telusplanet.net (Chris Warwick) wrote:
> > In article <m3btjzipgf.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>, Matthew
> Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > Of all the Ada compilers I have dealt with, both 83 and
> > 95, none deallocate memory to my knowledge (GNAT may, but
> > I haven't had need to look). Indeed this is one of the
> > first questions I ask when I discover c++ programmers
> > using Ada...
>
> The only instance I know of in commercial Ada compilers
> which might give rise to such a peculiar claim is the
> old obsolete Alsys 386 compiler, which for local
> collections (not very common in practice) delayed the
> deallocation till scope exit, but even there to say that
> the memory was not deallocated is false.
The Nighthawk Ada83 compiler deallocated into its own program-wide pool of
memory, which would not ever be given back to the *system* until program
termination. Out of the 9 or so Ada compilers I have worked with, that's the
only one I know that might qualify. (Unless you count the Alsys SMART
compilers, which couldn't allocate either.)
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-04 0:00 How do I get this to work?? Chris Warwick
1999-01-05 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-05 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-05 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-01-05 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-06 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-07 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-07 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-07 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-07 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-10 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-07 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-09 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-09 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-11 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-16 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-16 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-18 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-18 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-01-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-20 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-01-20 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-21 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-16 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-16 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-18 0:00 ` Chris Warwick
1999-01-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-01-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-07 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-06 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-06 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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