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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: dynamic multithreading
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:03:57 +0000 (UTC)
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* Simon Wright wrote:
> Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de> writes:
>> Simple. The access variable has a local scope and all objects associated
>> with it are automatically freed when the type goes out of scope. You may
>> limit the pool size of this access type ...
> 
> If you look at the code in question you will see that the type is not
> local (to the loop). It is local to the given subprogram, but the loop
> is endless in the subprogram.

I saw this and therefore noted the limitation of the pool.

> I agree that on a modern hosted OS like Linux or Windows, when you
> terminate the main program the memory it has allocated will be
> restored. But that will not do you much good if your os is eg VxWorks.

I do not talk about termination.