Re: many exceptions cause memory leak?

["Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota@adarose.com>]

Christopher Broeg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running some numeric code in ADA95 using GNAT Academic edition. 
> When negative values occur or the integration routine fails exceptions 
> are raised and propagated. This works fine.
> 
> Surprisingly, the memory usage increases from an initial ~40MB to 100MB 
> and more during one day of execution. the memory usage shouldn't 
> increase in my eyes. Is it possible that raising many exceptions 
> coninues to use up some memory?
> 
> thanks for your ideas,
> 
> Chris

Which platform is this running on? That could be helpful in determining 
the cause of your problem.

On Windows XP, I wrote a GNAT GPL application that raised and handled a 
million exception occurrences. This application also does a call to the 
Win32 API function GlobalMemoryStatus both before and after handling a 
million exception occurrences. The memory status before and after 
handling these exceptions was virtually the same. This seems to indicate 
that on XP at least, GNAT exceptions do *not* leak memory.

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