From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GC in Ada References: <1169636785.504223.139630@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <3pejpgfbki.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <45c99c24$1@news.post.ch> <45c9bdb8$1@news.post.ch> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:43:44 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZbY6rlUHtbREoKxx4BFgeCzteEA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.239.230 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1170923915 88.72.239.230 (8 Feb 2007 09:38:35 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9182 Date: 2007-02-08T09:43:44+01:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak writes: > Martin Krischik wrote: > >> And Unchecked_Deallocation should deallocate even when a collector >> is present. > > I don't understand. There is no legal way for the program to verify > that anything was indeed deallocated, so it doesn't make much sense to > say that this behaviour is required. Oh yes. Deallocating immeditately and deallocating later makes a difference in time and space behaviour -- which IS measurable outside the program (BTW: Exactly what you've been harping upon in you opposition against GC :-)) ) Regards -- Markus