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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie in distress :-)
Date: 1999/10/25
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In article <7usf0h$du2$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
  "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
>
> Guy Cohen <the-twin@inter.net.il> wrote in message
> news:7urnh6$4ov$1@news2.inter.net.il...
>> How do I free the memory captured by my program by using linked lists
>> at the end of the program?

> All memory "captured" by your program is automatically "freed" or
> released when the program terminates.

If we are talking heap (and not stack) here, that's not nessecarily
true. It depends on your OS (so it isn't really an Ada issue). vxWorks
doesn't work that way. I suspect many of the other "small" OS'es that
have Ada compilers on them are the same way (DOS, psos, AmigaDOS, etc.).

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