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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!enother.net!enother.net!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx22.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hubert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Stupid Question but it bothers me References: <6Tgvw.1229422$Rp.389422@fx23.iad> <6ab3d681-9b5b-41ef-b3b1-80ac39c783ef@googlegroups.com> <26b0c5fc-d820-4883-8faa-1491e8759846@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <26b0c5fc-d820-4883-8faa-1491e8759846@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 150119-1, 01/19/2015), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 04:27:37 UTC Organization: http://www.NewsDemon.com Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:27:38 -0800 X-Received-Bytes: 1667 X-Received-Body-CRC: 704954095 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24619 Date: 2015-01-19T20:27:38-08:00 List-Id: On 1/19/2015 18:58 PM, David Botton wrote: >> the storage is freed and the task continues to run. > > There is no blocking for task termination with Unchecked_Deallocation on tasks. When you deallocate a task it's memory is "marked" for deallocation, but not actually released until task termination. > > David Botton > Ok so does tat mean that the memory will be freed when the task finally terminates? Given that I called Free at some point. I mean I did all my task terminations with a Halt entry now, before I release the memory, but just out of curiosity --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com