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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Memory leak - What the ...?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:31:38 +0100
Date: 2004-10-12T13:31:38+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.285.1097584313.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uvegkc.jrg.ln@skymaster>


Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:

> Marius Amado Alves a �crit :
> 
>>
>> Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
>>
>> I still lack an understandable explanation of why this does not leak:
>>
>>       if This.Data /= null then
>>          This.Data := new Stream_Element_Array'(This.Data.all);
>>       end if;
>>
> Because the original data was declared as a field of an aggregate. When 
> this aggregate gets finalized, the corresponding data is freed.

Not the reason in the conclusion by the original poster, based on the 
discussion, that "this code is only valid because we are talking about 
an Adjust procedure of a Controlled type."

Either explanation is hardly understandable still.

Thanks anyway. I guess now I have something more concrete to chew on. 
I'll start by trying to locate the "original data" inside the bowl :-)





  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-12 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
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 [this message]
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
     [not found]             ` <uis9f1nw3.fsf@acm.org>
     [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
2004-10-11 10:21 Christoph Karl Walter Grein
2004-10-14  4:30 Christoph Karl Walter Grein
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