From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Memory leakage
Date: 2000/10/02
Date: 2000-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 39D8CD62.7B6EB2D4@boeing.com
In article <39D8CD62.7B6EB2D4@boeing.com>,
James Squire <james.a.squire@boeing.com> wrote:
> My impression is that in Ada 95 it should not be possible to have
> memory leaks, but I'm not so sure. I suspect it is a lot more
> difficult, but is it indeed impossible?
You suspect correctly. It is quite easy to produce memory leaks in Ada,
if you really want to. All you have to do is use "new", and not ever
use Unchecked_Deallocation. But the language does try to make it harder
to do on accident.
The main issue is you just don't need to use "new" all that much.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-02 0:00 Memory leakage James Squire
2000-10-02 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-10-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2000-10-04 2:23 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-04 0:40 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-10-04 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-05 0:33 ` Ed Falis
2000-10-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-10-05 2:08 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-09 0:00 ` John McCabe
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