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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/22
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Date: 1997-02-22T00:00:00+00:00
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Mats said

<<In Ada 83, this is not guaranteed to be portable (i.e. it may leak
memory on some implementations). I don't know if reclaiming that memory
is required in Ada 95.>>

certainly it is NOT required in either Ada 83 or Ada 95. In fact, given
the ability to specify storaghe pools, it is even less likely that the
default bejhavior meets this expectation.