From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Memory leak - What the ...?
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:04:03 +0100
Date: 2004-10-11T12:04:03+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.276.1097492654.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dcb57d1e.0410110018.57333dba@posting.google.com>
Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote in message news:<mailman.267.1097445952.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>...
>
>>> if This.Data /= null then
>>> This.Data := new Stream_Element_Array'(This.Data.all);
>>> end if;
>>
>>To my pointerless eyes this looks very leaky.
>
> Could you elaborate? I'm trying to do a deep copy.
The "new" expression yields a new pointer value, the assignment smashes
the old one with this new value, so the old pointer is lost, and unless
some magic was put it place the old pointee becomes a zombie.
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2004-10-10 21:33 Memory leak - What the ...? Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-10 22:05 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-11 8:18 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-11 11:04 ` Marius Amado Alves [this message]
2004-10-11 13:02 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-11 8:25 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-11 8:56 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-11 12:59 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-11 1:40 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-11 8:59 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-11 18:24 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-12 3:02 ` Brian May
2004-10-12 8:45 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
[not found] ` <mailman.282.1097576360.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
[not found] ` <uvegkc.jrg.ln@skymaster>
2004-10-12 12:31 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-12 14:47 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-12 16:05 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-12 19:37 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-12 22:10 ` Marius Amado Alves
[not found] ` <416C5646.1020506@netcabo.pt>
2004-10-13 0:17 ` Stephen Leake
[not found] ` <u655f1ng9.fsf@acm.org>
2004-10-13 6:24 ` Marius Amado Alves
[not found] ` <416C00D6.90402@netcabo.pt>
2004-10-13 0:14 ` Stephen Leake
[not found] ` <416BAFA4.7020400@netcabo.pt>
2004-10-13 0:07 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-13 13:45 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-10-14 9:15 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-14 17:21 ` Hyman Rosen
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[not found] ` <mailman.301.1097650377.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
2004-10-13 7:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-13 17:44 ` Mark Lorenzen
2004-10-14 8:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-18 0:33 ` Brian May
2004-10-12 12:05 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-13 0:12 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-13 8:39 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-13 13:11 ` Memory leak - What the ...? - FOUND Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-17 0:45 ` Memory leak - What the ...? Brian May
2004-10-13 0:32 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-18 0:26 ` Brian May
2004-10-13 0:27 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-13 7:58 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-13 13:01 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-13 0:25 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-13 12:26 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-13 14:45 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-13 23:45 ` Brian May
2004-10-14 1:33 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-11 8:04 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-12 10:47 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-12 15:07 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-10-13 14:53 ` Matthew Heaney
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2004-10-11 9:50 Christoph Karl Walter Grein
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