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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: memory leakages with Ada?
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:48:12 -0500
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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.

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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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>
> 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.
>