From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Memory leak - What the ...?
Date: 12 Oct 2004 20:14:09 -0400
Date: 2004-10-12T20:14:09-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.294.1097626461.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416C00D6.90402@netcabo.pt>
Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> writes:
> >>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;
> > Adjust is called just after the members of the record have been
> > copied. So imagine you have
> > A := B;
> > When Adjust(A) gets called, you will have
> > A.Data = B.Data
> > Since Data is an access type, you have a shallow copy where both A
> > and
> > B have members pointing to the same heap space.
> > In the Adjust, what A does is replicate the pointed data to get a new
> > pointer and a deep copy where A and B point to different heap copies.
> > Additionally, before A being overwritten, Finalize(A) is called just
> > in case it needs to free some memory.
> > Hope this helps.
>
> Not really. The only way for leaking not to take place is for the old
> This.Data value being held somewhere. Where?
In B. Eventually, Finalize (B) is called.
--
-- Stephe
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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
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>
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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
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2004-10-13 0:17 ` Stephen Leake
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2004-10-13 6:24 ` Marius Amado Alves
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2004-10-13 0:14 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
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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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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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