Re: memory leakages with Ada?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Excellent examples. That's the kind of thing I had in mind. I don't object
to relying on dynamic allocation for the more sophisticated things like
building data structures, but I'd prefer not to do it for the routine stuff
that has to happen all over the code. This is why I suggest that C tempts
fate with respect to memory leaks because stylistically, you just have to do
more memory management in so many more cases.

You *can* do similar things in Ada if so inclined. Nothing stops you from
doing some version of "new String..." and keeping pointers to everything &
using them for all your referencing of data. Its just that most of the time
you don't have to and that leads to fewer stupid programming errors.

MDC
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> wrote in message
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> This was actually one of my first observations when I started learning
Ada95.
> A C function does not have a simple way to return a string (a few basic