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From: kcline@optelnow.net (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: memory leakages with Ada?
Date: 15 Mar 2002 09:29:57 -0800
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john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com (John McCabe) wrote in message news:<3c91bf44.1892100@news.demon.co.uk>...
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:20:52 GMT, "Steve Doiel"
> <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> wrote:
> 
> >  nbBytes := GetNbBytes( dataSource );
> >  declare
> >    dataBuffer : ByteBuffer( 1 .. nbBytes );
> >  begin
> >     GetData( dataBuffer );
> >  end;
> >
> >Where in C the code would look something like:
> >
> >  nbBytes = GetNbBytes( dataSource );
> >  dataPtr = (char *)calloc( nbBytes );
> >  GetData( dataPtr );
> >  free( dataPtr );
> 
> What's wrong with:
> 
> nbBytes = GetNbBytes (dataSource);
> {
>    char data[nbBytes];

This wasn't legal until C99, and is still not legal in C++.

>    GetData(data);
> }
> 
> ?