From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Automatic Garbage Collection?
Date: 1999/04/22
Date: 1999-04-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7fnit5$n4k$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7fnbdg$g4n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7fnbdg$g4n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
ken_shiro@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> I am aware of the generic procedure "Unchecked_Deallocation", but I was
> wondering if some implementations support (automatic) garbage collection even
> though "Unchecked_Deallocation" is available?
If you define a storage pool for an access type, the memory for that pool will
be reclaimed automaticly when the type goes out of scope. I suppose that could
be considered "semi-automatic" garbage collection. :-)
The compilers that target the Java virtual machine probably have to do more.
But I am not aware of any other Ada compiler that does full automatic garbage
collection. The language standard does not prevent it; its just that no-one
has ever bothered to implement it.
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T.E.D.
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1999-04-22 0:00 Automatic Garbage Collection? ken_shiro
1999-04-22 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-04-22 0:00 ` dennison
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