From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Freeing Pointers to classwide types
Date: 1998/10/09
Date: 1998-10-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k92bvsup.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bde866$1be8ed00$5330ea9e@UKP014459.logica.co.uk
"Bob Fletcher" <fletcherr@logica.com> writes:
> Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com> wrote in article
> <360b26a1.41575272@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>...
> > Of course one
> > would also hope
> > procedure something(....) is
> > type ptr is access ....
> > p : ptr: := new ...
> > ...
> > end something
> > to free the memory pointed to by 'p' when it leaves procedure
> > something.
>
> Really? Isn't the object that is created by the 'new' keyword similar in
> nature to a C++ 'heap' variable, in that although the pointer may go out of
> scope the object will not, and needs to be explicitly destroyed?
No. When you leave a frame in which an access type is declared, the
storage associated with the access type gets reclaimed automatically.
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-24 0:00 Freeing Pointers to classwide types joecool
1998-09-25 0:00 ` alan walkington
1998-09-25 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-25 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-25 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-25 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-26 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-27 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-28 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-28 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-09-29 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-30 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-01 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-01 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-01 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-10-01 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-01 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-01 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-02 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-02 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-02 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-02 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-01 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-02 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-09 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-01 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-01 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-01 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-28 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-09-29 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-25 0:00 ` Bob Fletcher
1998-09-25 0:00 ` dennison
1998-09-25 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-10-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-10-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-26 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-10-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-09 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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