Re: garbage collection

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <yec9076vqly.fsf@king.cts.com>,
  Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> wrote:
> BTW, in my experience most access types don't go out of scope
> until
> the program terminates, because they're declared in
> library-level
> packages.  The automated reclamation can only take place if
> the access
> type is declared directly or indirectly within a subprogram or
> a task
> body (there may be other cases).

True, but the one familiar case in which access types are
declared locally is *precisely* when you want to take advantage
of the compiler being able to free everything on scope exit.
Of course you have to make sure that your compiler has this
capability (GNAT does, I don't know about other Ada 95
compilers).


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