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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: many exceptions cause memory leak?
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:00:59 +0100
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Christopher Broeg <broeg@astro.uni-jena.de> writes:

> I am by no means an expert in programming but I figured that all
> memory assigned by pointers is returned. I do not use my own storage
> pool but allocate just by
> is new...
> so it is all on the heap, I guess.

GNAT doesn't automatically free this memory until the end of the
program. You need to free it yourself.