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From: warwicks@telusplanet.net (Chris Warwick)
Subject: Re: Free()
Date: 1999/06/13
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In article <m3yaioswql.fsf@deneb.cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de>, Florian Weimer <fw@cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de> wrote:
>`Free' has to be an instantiation of Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation, like
>this:
>
>       procedure Free is
>           new Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation(
>               object_subtype_name, access_to_variable_subtype_name);

Not if he/she is digging for the Unix Free... In that case the Free call is 
probably an interface, and the problem is coming because the interface does 
not have access to the correct Unix library. So, some sort of arguement like 
"-lm" is needed to include the correct library (my Unix box is at the 
office)...