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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-28 12:58:21 PST Path: news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:58:19 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:58:25 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: <3F74366B.7050303@noplace.com> <3F74DF86.30206@comcast.net> <3F75A00A.2000007@noplace.com> <3F76F426.3030907@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <3F76F426.3030907@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.57 X-Trace: sv3-5ZudXNtSCyypXdGW42Be9bQG7qCXrtrnWSBxuMq7k1uNkdacspv7mr1rYaT9nRqTUzAxWgrVFZPjhXr!+bNd1bkVtYaQ4pRD/PLd1vh6ig8g/QdDnojN97He0H7qjQn8WSfFmZt8x4kO2xjBOCdsKGOFeVGN X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:86 Date: 2003-09-28T14:58:25-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > enough to consider it a significant weakness that no Ada compilers today > have GC or that it ought to be a priority to add it. (Robert Eachus > seems to be making a case that it is really rather expensive and doesn't > usually help much anyway.) Well, I don't consider it a significant weakness. I have fixed a few memory leaks in Ada, but AFAIK never caused one. All the ones I've found and fixed, with one exception, were due to exception handlers not repeating the cleanup that _was_ included in the regular code. Now, the designer of the data type that needs cleanup can take care of it. -- Wes Groleau "Grant me the serenity to accept those I cannot change; the courage to change the one I can; and the wisdom to know it's me." -- unknown