From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Subject: Re: Does memory leak?
Date: 1995/03/30
Date: 1995-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hbaker-2903952208230001@192.0.2.1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3l6gf6$h05@theopolis.orl.mmc.com
In article <3l6gf6$h05@theopolis.orl.mmc.com>, Theodore Dennison
<dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> wrote:
> Perhaps I'm missing something here...what exactly is wrong with using
> UNCHECKED_DEALLOCATION?
>
> I mean, if you don't deallocate what you allocate, your program will
> leak memory no matter what language it is written in. This isn't an Ada
> issue, it's an issue of sloppy coding.
Not necessarily true. I've written lots and lots of Lisp programs, and
I think that I forgot to deallocate in almost all of them. They worked
just fine.
(Of course I'm being facetious. Lisp doesn't have a deallocate primitive,
because it has an automatic garbage collector, just like Modula and Eiffel.
Furthermore, garbage collection can't collect stuff that is still linked
to live objects, so you can still get a 'leak' this way.)
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-22 9:06 Does memory leak? Duncan Sands
1995-03-22 12:04 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-23 0:37 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-23 13:54 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1995-03-23 16:23 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-24 21:08 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-03-28 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-31 0:00 ` Kent Mitchell
1995-03-23 2:08 ` T. Owen O'Malley
1995-03-24 11:44 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-27 14:01 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-29 0:00 ` John DiCamillo
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Robb Nebbe
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Henry Baker [this message]
1995-04-04 0:00 ` John Baker
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Sverre Brubaek
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Ray Toal
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-03-23 22:38 ` Tucker Taft
1995-03-24 1:57 ` Henry Baker
1995-03-24 17:30 ` Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software
1995-03-26 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1995-03-27 15:19 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-03-27 14:35 ` Kennel
1995-03-24 12:29 ` Mike Meier
1995-03-24 10:46 ` Fred J. McCall
1995-03-24 15:44 ` David Weller
1995-03-25 1:55 ` kkrieser
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1995-03-27 9:36 Duncan Sands
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