Re: newbie: can't read fast enough... :-) memory leaks...

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 09/03/2014 09:57 PM, Brad Moore wrote:
> 
>      declare
>         type String_Access is access String;
>         A, B : String_Access;
>      begin
>         A := new String'("String 1");
>         B := new String'("String 2");
>         ... -- Operate on the data.
>      end;
>      -- A and B are automatically freed here because the String_Access
>      -- is finalized since the scope of the declaration of the access
>      -- type is being exited, and finalizing an access type also
>      -- finalizes its collection (allocated objects designated by that
>      -- type).
> 
> This is a nice way to free up a bunch of objects that are no longer needed, if
> it can be guaranteed that the objects are only needed in a nested scope. I like
> this better than garbage collection, because the
> deallocation occurs more consistently, when and where it is needed.
> I view this as being less error prone, if one is able to take advantage of this
> approach.

Recent comments here in another thread indicate that this only works if
'Storage_Size is defined for the access type.

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Jeff Carter
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