From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,URI_HEX autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19140af19dfa6e01,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-09 06:37:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!68236-cm.able.ES!not-for-mail From: Jano Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada 0Y plans for garbage collection? Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:35:22 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68236-cm.able.es (212.97.168.236) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1063114644 20837487 212.97.168.236 (16 [49872]) X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.50 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42317 Date: 2003-09-09T15:35:22+02:00 List-Id: Hello, I'm very happy using Ada but when one needs to use heap-allocated objects and unchecked deallocation it becomes tiresome rapidly, and that leaving aside memory leaks. After some time using Java/.NET or other managed languages this becomes rapidly a great pain if you are in the less real time constrained environments. I was wondering if there are plans to add a standard garbage collection mechanism to the next revision of Ada. Seeing where are going things this seems almost a necessity if Ada has to keep current with times. I've seen past discussions about Ada and GC, but mostly focus on technical difficulties or social (fictitious?) "cultural" opposition to it being implemented, or lack of demand, or whatever, but nothing about definite plans for the next revision. Can someone comment on this? Are there plans to mandate it in 0Y? As a side note, is out there any public implementation of GC for Ada 95? TIA, -- ------------------------- Jano 402450.at.cepsz.unizar.es -------------------------