Re: memory management

From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
To: "alex goldman" <hello@spamm.er>
Cc: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: memory management
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 21:14:50 -0500
Date: 2005-05-25T21:14:50-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.131.1117073739.24457.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1131064.rs72P29t4t@yahoo.com

There is no automatic deallocation of memory when an
access object goes out of scope, unless the
designated object is a controlled type.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alex goldman" <hello@spamm.er>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
Sent: May 25, 2005 7:57 PM
Subject: memory management

> As I understood from reading the Ada tutorial for C/C++ programmers,
> "access" is essentially like C++ smart pointer, except that you don't need
> to do anything to dereference it.
> 
> How will the following work:
> 
> Record A contains "access" to record B; 
> record B contains "access" to record A.
> 
> If I create an instance of one of them with "new", will it be destroyed when
> "access" to it goes out of scope?
> 
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