From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s72.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GC in Ada References: <1169636785.504223.139630@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <45b8361a_5@news.bluewin.ch> <3pejpgfbki.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <45c99c24$1@news.post.ch> <45c9bdb8$1@news.post.ch> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s72 1170959055 12.201.97.213 (Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:24:15 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:24:15 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:24:15 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9150 Date: 2007-02-08T18:24:15+00:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak wrote: > > As far as I understand it, Unchecked_Deallocation is allowed to do > nothing. That wouldn't be a very competitive language implementation, > but AARM does not require it either. :-) Unchecked_Deallocation has to set its parameter to null. The Rolm-Data General compiler, the 1st validated Ada-83 compiler, did only that. The argument was that every program had a 4 GB virtual memory space, so there was no need to actually reclaim memory. In reality, I think it was skipped to save time so they could have the 1st validated compiler. -- Jeff Carter "What I wouldn't give for a large sock with horse manure in it." Annie Hall 42