From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Access to classwide type
Date: 2000/07/24
Date: 2000-07-24T20:44:35+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8li9rj$pq6$1@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8li0m5$1i4$1@nnrp1.deja.com
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reason67@my-deja.com a �crit dans le message
<8li0m5$1i4$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>How in the heck does it do that? Does Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation read
>the tag and do a `size on the data structure to determine the size of
>the memory in heap to release? I am suprised by this. It is more
>implicit than I am used to in Ada.
Well "malloc" takes the size of the object but not "free". I think that the
OS is
able to know the size from the start address of the chunk of memory. Nothing
so special here to me... At least it seems not to be an Ada issue.
Pascal.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-23 0:00 Access to classwide type reason67
2000-07-24 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-07-24 0:00 ` reason67
2000-07-24 0:00 ` Pascal Obry [this message]
2000-07-24 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-07-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-24 0:00 ` reason67
2000-07-24 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-07-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-24 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-07-25 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-07-25 0:00 ` Matthew J Heaney
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