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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: freeing general access types
Date: 24 Dec 2002 09:36:10 -0500
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tmoran@acm.org writes:

> If P is a general access type, is there any way to know whether it's
> pointing to allocated storage, and should have Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation
> applied to avoid a memory leak, or it's pointing at a declared
> object, which should not be deallocated?

I don't think so. I use naming conventions and distinct types for
that; one access type either _always_ points to constants, or _always_
should be deallocated.

Or you can store info inside the type that gives this information.

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-- Stephe