Re: Does memory leak?

[fjm@ti.com (Fred J. McCall)]

In article <D5y2p7.1zL@ss3.magec.com> mjmeie@ss5.magec.com (Mike Meier) writes:

>No, Ada doesn't leak memory.  But, some Ada programs (especially
>those using C-language X-windows code ;-)) leak memory like a sieve.

>In current reality, no Ada run-time environments that I'm aware of provide
>automated garbage collection (unless you count deallocation of objects that
>fall out of scope), including mainly Alsys and Rational/Verdix.  There have
>been -long- threads on this subject in this newsgroup in the not too distant
>past, and the general consensus seemed to be that garbage collection will
>probably not exist in the Ada world soon.

>So what do you do?  You make sure that you deallocate all dynamically
>allocated objects as soon as you're done with them.  If the object is
>a nested structure containing other dynamically allocated objects, you
>deallocate the nested structures first.

Note that this is EXACTLY the approach one should be following in C/C++ (and 
any other language that doesn't take care of garbage collection 
automagically).  

So much for the various bashers.