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From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Access to classwide type
Date: 2000/07/24
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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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