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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC?
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 09:51:21 -0700 (PDT)
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On 17 Maj, 09:34, Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote:

>     function Norm (V : in Vector) return Float;
>
>     ...
>
>     declare
>        V : Vector (1 .. 100);
>        R : Float;
>     begin
>        R := Norm (V);
>        ...
>
> Not a single memory allocation. In C/C++ you'll need to dynamically
> allocate V on the heap, and then worry about freeing this memory.

Sorry for being a bit rude, but OP explicitly said that this is not
for those who use the names C and C++ interchangeably. :-)
The C++ programmer would do this:

float norm(const vector<float> & v);

// and then:
vector<float> v(100);
// ...
float r = norm(v);

No explicit allocation on the heap and no worry about deallocation. It
is all automatic.

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Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com