From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@acm.nospam.org>
Subject: Re: Allocators and exceptions
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:07:48 GMT
Date: 2007-09-10T22:07:48+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <UejFi.95559$Fc.29893@attbi_s21> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1189439048.467517.186160@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>
Adam Beneschan wrote:
>
> In fact, I believe there is nowhere
> in the language that says that memory is automatically reclaimed in
> *any* situation; and, in fact, there is no guarantee that you can even
> reclaim any storage at all. 13.11.2 defines Unchecked_Deallocation,
> but this section has an "Implementation Advice" that says "For a
> standard storage pool, Free [an instance of Unchecked_Deallocation]
> should actually reclaim the storage." Note that that is only
> *advice*. So an implementation can legitimately be an Ada compiler
> without implementing Unchecked_Deallocation at all.
It has to implement Unchecked_Deallocation, and the implementation has
to set the parameter X to null. But that's all an implementation has to
do, and that's all the Rolm/Data General compiler did in 1984. But every
more recent compiler that I've used actually did deallocation.
--
Jeff Carter
"It's all right, Taggart. Just a man and a horse being hung out there."
Blazing Saddles
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2007-09-09 7:40 Allocators and exceptions Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-09 12:17 ` anon
2007-09-09 20:31 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-09 22:43 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-10 12:10 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-10 19:08 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-10 2:56 ` anon
2007-09-10 12:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-10 21:48 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-11 9:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-11 9:19 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-11 12:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-11 19:07 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-11 22:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-09-12 12:36 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-12 22:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-12 9:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-12 12:42 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-12 15:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-12 12:29 ` Stephen Leake
2007-09-12 12:46 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-12 20:53 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-12 22:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-12 23:43 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-13 3:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-13 3:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-13 9:43 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-12 22:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-13 11:51 ` Stephen Leake
2007-09-12 14:14 ` Markus E L
2007-09-10 10:37 ` Allocators and exceptions => Read Me First anon
2007-09-10 12:16 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-10 22:10 ` Allocators and exceptions => Trying Again anon
2007-09-10 23:15 ` Markus E L
2007-09-10 15:44 ` Allocators and exceptions Adam Beneschan
2007-09-10 21:58 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-10 22:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2007-09-11 9:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-11 9:23 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-11 2:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-11 15:33 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-09-11 19:21 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-11 21:56 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-09-12 0:34 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-09-12 12:13 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-12 16:34 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-09-12 23:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-09-12 12:22 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-12 14:11 ` Markus E L
2007-09-12 16:08 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-09-12 20:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-12 21:01 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-09-12 22:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-13 7:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-12 3:08 ` Allocators and exceptions -- Debugging says memory leak! anon
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