Re: memory leakages with Ada?

[kcline@optelnow.net (Kevin Cline)]

Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message news:<3C923755.7050007@mail.com>...
> Kevin Cline wrote:
> > No problem in C++ though:
> >     nbBytes = GetNbBytes( dataSource );
> >     std::vector<char> data(nbBytes);
> >     GetData( data );
> 
> But this is identical in spirit to the C version,
> in that memory will be allocated from the heap
> instead of the stack. The Ada version requires
> no deallocation or destruction other than that
> afforded by exiting the scope of the object.

It's not at all like the C version. 
The memory is managed by std::vector, and will be 
deallocated in the vector destructor when the scope is exited.

In a well-written C++ (or Ada) program all memory allocation and
deallocation will be handled by low-level classes.  Explicit
calls to allocate or deallocate memory should never appear in
higher-level code.