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Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
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On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 1:36:56 PM UTC+2, Brian Drummond wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:23:25 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> > On 30.07.15 10:03, EGarrulo wrote:
> >>
> >> Ada doesn't offer any facility for automatic
> >> resource management, and that makes it unsuitable for applications that
> >> go beyond constrained embedded development.  Who wants to chase
> >> resource leaks in this day and age?
> > 
> > Is this about GC only? 
> 
> No, since he widens the discussion beyond just memory as a resource, I 
> suspect he means controlled types.
> 
> -- Brian

Yes, I mean controlled types.  As far as I can tell, right
now controlled types are useful for resources that are local
to a routine, but they don't scale well for shared resources
because of insufficient support from the language.  I know
that non-intrusive shared pointers have been implemented in
Ada (just a couple of months ago, though, but late is better
than never), but they feel cumbersome and error-prone to use.