From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: memory leakages with Ada?
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:48:12 -0500
Date: 2002-03-20T17:48:14+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a7ai0u$9oq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C97E496.20404@mail.com
Well, yeah, that's true. A function returning a String would need to
construct the string then copy it to the caller's space. C's allocation and
return of a pointer doesn't require that. Note that you *can* do the same in
Ada - you just aren't *forced* to do that. Hence, if your application isn't
time-critical or memory-critical, you don't have to take the risk of memory
leaks by doing so.
MDC
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
news:3C97E496.20404@mail.com...
>
> Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to say!
> My point was that in the various C techniques,
> the bytes of the result get constructed once,
> and then don't have to be copied as part of
> the function return, whereas returning a String
> in Ada will involve copying the bytes.
>
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2002-03-14 14:07 memory leakages with Ada? Calvin Ow
2002-03-14 14:31 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-14 20:42 ` Nick Roberts
2002-03-14 21:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-14 21:07 ` Anh_Vo
2002-03-14 20:12 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-15 9:37 ` John McCabe
2002-03-15 12:55 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-16 4:36 ` Will
2002-03-16 4:53 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-16 12:21 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-16 9:13 ` DPH
2002-03-16 14:38 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-16 14:56 ` DPH
2002-03-16 15:51 ` Preben Randhol
2002-03-16 16:39 ` DPH
2002-03-16 19:51 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-16 20:40 ` DPH
2002-03-17 19:31 ` Richard Riehle
2002-03-17 21:49 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-17 22:02 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-18 22:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-03-18 22:47 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-18 7:22 ` Richard Riehle
2002-03-18 17:35 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-17 16:26 ` Steve Doiel
2002-03-16 20:18 ` Robert A Duff
2002-03-16 20:36 ` DPH
2002-03-15 14:20 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-18 17:54 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-03-18 19:54 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-18 20:34 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-18 21:18 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-18 21:45 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-20 1:19 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-20 17:06 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-03-20 17:56 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-20 17:48 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2002-03-22 0:25 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-03-22 5:10 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-18 22:18 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-20 20:49 ` Bertrand Augereau
2002-03-21 4:31 ` Will
2002-03-15 16:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-15 21:59 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-17 5:43 ` Kevin Cline
2002-03-17 7:22 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-18 4:09 ` Kevin Cline
2002-03-18 16:54 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-18 17:38 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-03-19 9:21 ` John McCabe
2002-03-19 17:11 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-03-19 17:16 ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-19 17:51 ` David C. Hoos
2002-03-19 18:20 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-03-19 23:43 ` Mark Johnson
2002-03-20 15:09 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-03-17 7:27 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-18 3:52 ` Kevin Cline
2002-03-18 5:37 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-15 17:41 ` Kevin Cline
2002-03-15 18:00 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-15 18:08 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-16 10:15 ` Kevin Cline
2002-03-14 23:14 ` Kevin Cline
2002-03-15 3:20 ` Steve Doiel
2002-03-15 9:32 ` John McCabe
2002-03-15 15:46 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-15 17:29 ` Kevin Cline
2002-03-15 15:48 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-16 3:05 ` Steve Doiel
2002-03-16 20:19 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-15 17:25 ` Kevin Cline
2002-03-15 18:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-16 10:07 ` Kevin Cline
2002-03-17 3:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-15 9:27 ` John McCabe
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2002-03-20 6:25 Christoph Grein
2002-03-20 16:35 ` Hyman Rosen
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