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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: Memory leak - What the ...?
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Date: 2004-10-11T12:04:03+01:00

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.