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From: "Daniel Sch�le" <uval@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: some simple questions
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:56:39 +0100
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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Hi all

I am learning Ada on doing
I have found some small examples on web and
now I'm trying to put the mosaic stones together

my questions are

given
    type pint is access integer;
    pi: pint:=new integer;

how do I delete the allocated object?
free(pi);    --doesn't work
(I'm pretty sure Ada doesn't have Garabge Collector)

is there a syntax available to initialize allocated object (like in C++)?
int * pi=new int(0);
now I am doing that this way
pi.all:=0;

what is the proper way to assure that pointer points to valid object?

and last one
what's "std::system("clear");" translated to Ada
(OS Linux)

sorry if it's faq

Thanks

Daniel