Re: Create-Delete tmp Files

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>]

Achim Gerhard <achim_g@my-deja.com> writes:

> > By the way, "legal" is a compile-time thing in Ada, which isn't what
> you
> > mean here.
> Excuse my bad English. 

It's not bad English.  It's just bad Ada jargon.  ;-)  "Legal" and
"illegal" are defined in chap 1 of the Ada RM.

>...What would you say?

How about, "Should the following work?"

> > > loop
> > > Text_IO.Create ( File => the_file, Mode => Text_IO.OUT_File );
> > > Text_IO.Reset ( File => the_file, Mode => Text_IO.IN_File );
> > > Text_IO.Delete ( File => the_file );
> > > end loop;
> > > And the question behind that is:
> > > Why does this code cause the Ada runtime to accumulate memory?
> >
> > Because you didn't Close the file.
> From LRM, A.8.2 File Management
> 12 procedure Delete(File : in out File_Type);
> 13 Deletes the external file associated with the given file.
> The given file is closed, and the external file ceases to exist.
> ^^^^^^^^^

OK, I guess I was wrong.  I don't know why it leaks memory.

- Bob