Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC?

[Matthew Heaney <mheaney@on2.com>]

On May 16, 1:44 pm, "jhc0...@gmail.com" <jhc0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> To me, this seems much, much more error-prone and tedious that C++'s
> RAII approach, where you almost never have to worry about deallocation
> (i.e. "b" and "c" above), even in the presence of exceptions, unless
> you have GC. Besides, RAII applies to a bunch of other things, like
> thread locks, database connections, files - not just memory.

You seem to be conflating two different things.  You want information
about RAII in Ada, but then ask about memory management in Ada.
Stroustrup's whole point that GC only solves one part (automation
memory reclaimation) of a larger problem (automation resource
reclaimation).  You yourself do mention this fact, but only in the
very last sentence of your post!

Yes, Ada has the analog of C++ ctor's and dtor's, so yes, you can do
RAII in Ada.  Usually it involves the use of
Ada.Finalization.Controlled (and really, just the Finalize part).