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 X-Received: by 10.182.241.71 with SMTP id wg7mr1211691obc.38.1421729806955; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:56:46 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.197.129 with SMTP id iu1mr62540obc.13.1421729806734; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:56:46 -0800 (PST) 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!news2.arglkargh.de!news.glorb.com!hl2no233182igb.0!news-out.google.com!qk8ni11365igc.0!nntp.google.com!h15no353892igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:56:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.46.72.234; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.46.72.234 References: <6Tgvw.1229422$Rp.389422@fx23.iad> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Stupid Question but it bothers me From: David Botton Injection-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 04:56:46 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24623 Date: 2015-01-19T20:56:46-08:00 List-Id: > Thanks, that helps understand the process. Curiously, most Ada books > seem to treat Unchecked_Deallocation like a stepchild. I have read > advices (in older books perhaps) that one should not bother with it > since all memory will be freed at program end anyway, which clearly > seems to be from a different time period. Well often in Ada it is possible to get around needing it. Using the stack, storage pools, etc. David Botton