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From: dale@rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough)
Subject: Re: Java vs Ada 95 (Was Re: Once again,
 Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation)
Date: 1996/10/15
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> I don't believe that Java even defines a way to explicitly deallocate
> a specified piece of memory, like Ada's Unchecked_Conversion or C++'s
> free().


The Java LRM recommends 

   s = null;

to force the deallocation of items (at least i think it's "null"!)

Dale