Re: Why people wants to complicate code with Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation?

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

fabio de francesco <cancella.fabiomdf@alice.elimina.it> writes:

> The following statement is from Cohen's "Ada as a second language":
>
> "Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation must be used with caution. As we shall
> see, it can lead to subtle but devastating errors. If storage for
> allocated object is plentiful, there is no point in complicating the
> program to keep track of which allocated objects are no longer
> needed".

In my world, storage is not plentiful, so we absolutely must keep
track of it! (but I certainly would _not_ bother over-much for an
off-line tool that runs to completion and isn't a heavy memory user
anyway).