From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: how do i include 111111 in an enumaration type ?
Date: 1999/10/12
Date: 1999-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7tvpd6$1mg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn806iq2.1nn.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de
In article <slrn806iq2.1nn.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>,
lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke) wrote:
> * Matthew Heaney wrote:
> >Your code segment is completely wrong. Do not use raw access types.
> >Use Unbounded_String, which does automatic garbage collection.
>
> I thougt (by reading the RM95), that only explizit calls of
> Unchecked_Access or (Unchecked_)Free can cause a memory leakage. I
> assumed automatic garbage collecting to every ordinary use of access
> and new.
Whoa! I don't nessecarily agree with Matt's sentiment, but what you just
answered with is completely wrong.
o The only way to get memory leaks is to *not* deallocate allocated
memory. Explicit deallocations can be dangerous for other reasons, but
they cannot cause leaks.
o Almost no Ada compilers provide automatic garbage collection. I
don't know of *any* that do it that don't target the JVM.
Thus following your logic to avoid memory leaks is one sure way to give
yourself memory leaks!
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T.E.D.
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1999-10-11 0:00 ` how do i include 111111 in an enumaration type ? Keith Thompson
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Sybs ALHABSHI
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-10-14 0:00 ` Sybs ALHABSHI
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